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Dennis Lehane Gone, Baby, Gone: A Novel
HarperTorch 0380730359 / 9780380730353 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Good
0380730359 Editorial Reviews n nAmazon.com Review nCheese 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. n nPrivate 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. n nOther Kenzie/Gennaro books available in paperback: Darkness, Take My Hand, A Drink Before the War, Sacred. --Dick Adler --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. n nFrom Publishers Weekly nVanished, in this complex and unsettling fourth case for PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro (after Sacred, 1997) is four-year-old Amanda McCready, taken one night from her apartment in Dorchester, a working-class section of Boston, where her mother had left her alone. Kenzie and Gennaro, hired by the child's aunt and uncle, join in an unlikely alliance with Remy Broussard and Nick Raftopoulos, known as Poole, the two cops with the department's Crimes Against Children squad who are assigned to the case. In tracing the history of Amanda's neglectful mother, whose past involved her with a drug lord and his minions, the foursome quickly find themselves tangling with Boston's crime underworld and involved in what appears to be a coup among criminals. Lehane develops plenty of tension between various pairs of parties: the good guys looking for Amanda and the bad guys who may know where she is; the two PIs and the two cops; various police and federal agencies; opposing camps in the underworld; and Patrick and Angie, who are lovers as well as business partners. All is delivered with abundant violence?e.g., bloated and mutilated corpses; gangland executions; shoot-outs with weapons of prodigious firepower; descriptions of sexual abuse of small children; threats of rape and murder?that serves to make Amanda's likely fate all the more chilling. Lehane tackles corruption in many forms as he brings his complicated plot to its satisfying resolution, at the same time leaving readers to ponder moral questions about social and individual responsibility long after the last page is turned. Author tour. nCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Dennis Lehane Sacred
Bantam Books Ltd 0553818260 / 9780553818260 PAPERBACK Good
0553818260 Amazon.co.uk Review nDennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book curse, he beats it to death with a stick. Sacred is a dark and dangerous updating of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, as dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Kenzie and Gennaro to find his daughter, Desiree. Patrick's mentor, a wonderfully devious detective named Jay Becker, has already disappeared in St Petersburg, Florida, while working the case, so the two head there to pick up a trail. Desiree, of course, is nothing like the sweet and simple beauty described by her father, and even Chandler would have been amazed by the plot twists that Lehane manages to keep coming. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Book Description nThe electrifying sequel to Darkness, Take My Hand.
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Dennis Lehane Shutter Island
Ullstein Taschenbuchvlg. 3548261949 / 9783548261942 PAPERBACK Good
3548261949 Aus der Amazon.de-Redaktion nShutter Island, eine abgelegene Insel vor der amerikanischen Ostk?ste, ist Schauplatz des nervenaufreibenden Thrillers von Erfolgsautor Dennis Lehane. Aus einer Klinik f?r geistesgest÷rte Gewaltt?ter ist die M÷rderin Rachel Solando ausgebrochen. Als US-Marshal Teddy Daniels eintrifft, um die Fl?chtige zu suchen, st÷?t er auf eine Atmosph?re eisiger Ablehnung. Weder Dr. Cawley, der ?rztliche Leiter, noch sein stellvertretender Anstaltsleiter McPherson im Ashecliffe Hospital scheinen an der Suche nach der fl?chtigen Rachel Solando sonderlich interessiert zu sein. n nDennoch wird den beauftragten US-Marshals Daniels und Aule schnell klar, dass der Patientin jemand bei ihrer Flucht geholfen haben muss. Kurz vor der Ankunft der Polizisten auf der Insel hat sich zu allem ?berfluss Solandos behandelnder Arzt Lester Sheehan in den Urlaub verabschiedet und ist nicht erreichbar. Einblick in Personalakten wird den Ermittlern verweigert, ihre Waffen m?ssen sie abgeben. Aber ein Zahlenr?tsel, das die Entflohene in ihrer Zelle zur?ckgelassen hat, bringt Daniels auf die Spur eines mysteri÷sen Patienten Nr. 67 im ber?chtigten Trakt C, obwohl Cawley beteuert, auf der Insel seien nur 66 Patienten untergebracht. Von Migr?neanf?llen geplagt, sieht sich der Marshal zunehmenden Attacken auf seine Psyche ausgesetzt. n nNach f?nf erfolgreichen Kriminalromanen um das Ermittlerduo Gennaro und Kenzie und seinem Meisterwerk Mystic River, beweist Dennis Lehane seine ?berragende Klasse auch in Shutter Island, einem gewaltt?tigen Werk, nicht etwa, weil k÷rperliche Gewalt eine dominierende Rolle im Buch spielen w?rde, sondern weil sich die Hauptfiguren des Romans mit beispielloser psychischer Aggression begegnen. Raffiniert zieht Lehane den Leser in einen Strudel Schrecken erregender Ereignisse und l?sst ihn schlie?lich zweifelnd und best?rzt mit einem meisterhaft inszenierten Finale alleine. Ohne Trost, ohne Erl÷sung, zweifellos aber mit dem ?beraus begl?ckenden Gef?hl, hervorragende Literatur genossen zu haben. Dennis Lehanes grandioser Thriller geh÷rt zum Besten, was das Genre in den letzten Jahren zu bieten hatte. Niemand, der dieses Buch gelesen hat, wird es schnell vergessen k÷nnen! --Ulrich Deurer -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf?gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels. n nKurzbeschreibung nIm Sommer 1954 wird US-Marshall Teddy Daniels nach Shutter Island zum Ashecliffe Hospital f?r geisteskranke Verbrecher gerufen. Er soll eine angeblich geflohene M÷rderin aufsp?ren - doch bald erweist sich die Insel als gef?hrlicher Albtraum. Wird er sie ?berhaupt je wieder verlassen?
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