Brief Description
Dennis Lahane, the poet laureate of Boston's working class, is back with private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Initially they resist a missing child cases, but 80 hours have passed since her disappearance and not a single clue has turned up. At the behest of the child's aunt, Kenzie and Gennaro join in the hunt--in a search that will tear into their souls and those of all involved. Author profile at avonbooks.com.
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Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her bed on a warm, Indian summer night. They meet her stoned-out, strangely apathetic mother, her loving aunt and uncle, the mother's dangerous drug-addled friends, and two cops who've found so many abused or dead children they may be too far over the edge to come back. Despite enormous public attention, rabid news coverage, and dogged police work, the investigation repeatedly hits a brick wall. Then a second child disappears....As the two detectives intensify their search, they encounter a media more interested in sensationalizing the abductions than solving them, a midnight ransom drop that explodes into a firefight, a city seething with secrets and rage, and a faceless power determined to keep the children lost forever.
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The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. Its territory is 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."
About the Author
Dennis Lehane is the author of ten previous novels including the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He lives in California with his family.
Review Quotes
1. "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."-- "Publishers Weekly""Gone, Baby Gone is a tough, true powerful story written by a stunningly good novelist, one of our very best."-- James Patterson
