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The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything--their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives--to find a little girl lost.
Cheese Olamon, "a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty-pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who'd somehow arrived at the misconception he was black," is telling his old grammar school friends Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro why they have to convince another mutual chum, the gun dealer Bubba Rugowski, that Cheese didn't try to have him killed. "You let Bubba know I'm clean when it comes to what happened to him. You want me alive. Okay? Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone." Of all the chilling, completely credible scenes of sadness, destruction, and betrayal in Dennis Lehane's fourth and very possibly best book about Kenzie and Gennaro, this moment stands out because it captures in a few pages the essence of Lehane's success.
Private detectives Kenzie and Gennaro, who live in the same working-class Dorchester neighborhood of Boston where they grew up, have gone to visit drug dealer Cheese in prison because they think he's involved in the kidnapping of 4-year-old Amanda McCready. Without sentimentalizing the grotesque figure of Cheese, Lehane tells us enough about his past to make us understand why he and the two detectives might share enough trust to possibly save a child's life when all the best efforts of traditional law enforcement have failed. By putting Kenzie and Gennaro just to one side of the law (but not totally outside; they have several cop friends, a very important part of the story), Lehane adds depth and edge to traditional genre relationships. The lifelong love affair between Kenzie and Gennaro--interrupted by her marriage to his best friend--is another perfectly controlled element that grows and changes as we watch. Surrounded by dead, abused, and missing children, Kenzie mourns and rages while Gennaro longs for one of her own. So the choices made by both of them in the final pages of this absolutely gripping story have the inevitability of life and the dazzling beauty of art.
Other Kenzie/Gennaro books available in paperback: Darkness, Take My Hand , A Drink Before the War , Sacred . --Dick Adler
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Recommendation: Highly Recommended:
I thoroughly recommedend all of Dennis Lehane's books. Gifted author, Although, with this book, the ending was a little upsetting to me, but I guess that's what makes him a great writer. This is a must read.
Sleepless in Boston:
I agree with the previous reviewer. I have lost a lot of sleep the past two weeks as I worked my way through the first four volumes of Lehane's Kenzie/Gennaro series. Even though a Bostonian, I had only read Mystic River until now. I liked it but I disliked Lehane's fictionalizing of Boston. By this, I mean setting the story in the Boston neighborhood of Buckingham, which does not exist. Call me petty, but I found it distracting.more info Sorry, I Need A Break:
I'm a night reader. I get into bed, crack a book and relax for about an hour before drowsing off. Lately, my routine has been turned completely upside down. I've just read 4 Lehane books in a row and haven't slept in weeks! Instead of reading one hour a night, I'm averaging 3-4 hours a night. I go into work and get, "Wow, you look bad, what happened to you last night?" LEHANE, that's what happened. LEHANE. Here's an idea: how about ending a chapter with something that doesn't force me to read the next... more info Check out this author:
Lehane is my favorite author now. The dialogue is edgy, colorful, definitely adult rated. But the topics are deep, controversial and thought provoking. The books offer so much more than the typical suspense- detective genre. I think this book "Gone Baby Gone" is the last of the series with Patrick Knezie and Angela Genarro as the detective partners, so don't read this one until you start with "A Drink Before the War" and take it from there. One thing I did not like about this book is the way it ended. I... more info Similar Products:
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