by Dennis Lehane
Powerful compactly wound crime fiction, by the author of MYSTIC RIVER. A book that's pulled as tight as a garrot against the neck. The main character is a walking cipher, both to himself and others. His moral choices have landed him a gray world of walking alienation, but he's generally a sympatheti...
Time for another catch-up post because: A. I should've had these taken care of months ago, and B. because I'm having a really hard time writing up Butcher's The Aeronaut’s Windlass Walking the Perfect Square by Reed Farrel Coleman Moe Prager is waiting to call his daughter on her birthday, but bef...
Dennis Lehane is probably best known for his novel Mystic River and from what I understand from other reviews, he returns to Boston where the Chechen Mob runs the street and the bars: Bob Saginowskiis a lonely bartender at his cousin's bar really just looking to for something to live for. When he r...
When I read the first brief review for Dennis Lehane's The Drop, I scoffed at the mention of a dog changing a man's life. Now, I'll be one of the first people to argue for pet adoption, but I don't want to read a book about it. It would be saccharine and dull, and I can't be doing with sugary books ...
This story has seen several formats: a short story (Animal Rescue in the anthology, Boston Noir), a screenplay for the movie with the same title (Tom Hardy!! Noomi Rapace! James Gandolfini!! His last movie, actually), and now a novelization. I haven't read the short nor have I seen the movie (my sis...
Bob, a lonely bartender, works at his cousin Marv's bar, well it isn't Marv's bar anymore, hasn't been for years. it's Marv's name on the bar but it is the chechen mob who really owns the bar, One night the bar gets robbed and it is also the same night that Bob finds a puppy in a trash can and meet ...
A couple days after Christmas, Bob, a lonely bartender finds a nearly dead puppy in a garbage can. When the bar he tends is robbed one night, Bob's life circles the drain. Suddenly, a cop named Torres is asking about a decade-old murder, the Chechens that own the bar want their 5,000 dollars back, a...
Title: The Drop Who wrote it? This is the new novel by Dennis Lehane, the author behind books like Mystic River, Gone, Baby, Gone and A Drink Before the War Plot in a Box: A barman finds a puppy in a trash can, takes it home and starts a new life. Oh, and a bar owned by the Chechen Mafia, ...
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