A Drink Before the War
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- 5,99 €
Publisher Description
The mesmerizing, darkly
original novel that heralded the arrival of now New York Times
bestselling author Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir—and introduced
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigators
weaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.
A cabal of powerful Boston
politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly
small job: to find a missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. As
Kenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's about
justice, about right and wrong. But in Boston, finding the truth isn’t just a
dirty business . . . it’s deadly.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
An ordinary job takes a pair of detectives down a blind alley of political corruption, racial hostility, and warring street gangs in Dennis Lehane’s thrilling 1994 debut. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are Boston-based private eyes hired by three powerful politicians for a seemingly simple job: to retrieve the “documents” taken by the woman who cleans their offices. The detectives soon discover that they’ve been hired to get stolen photos with primo blackmail potential, pulling the pair into an explosive web of misdeeds involving the city’s most violent crime kingpins. Lehane shows his talent for hardboiled, neo-noir mysteries, and he doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to exploring how race, class, and money divide the city he loves. A Drink Before the War is a hard-edged crime thriller that has something to say.
