A Drink Before the War (Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, #1) (Kenzie & Gennaro)

by Dennis Lehane

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Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential Statehouse documents.
But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive. The investigation escalates, uncovering a web of corruption extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of state government.

With slick, hip dialogue and a lyrical narrative pocked by explosions of violence, A Drink Before the War confronts a city in which institutionalized bigotry and corruption are often the norm, and the true nature of 'racial incidents' is rarely clear. Dennis Lehane's remarkable debut is at once a pulsating crime thriller and a mirror of our world, one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home, and the most vicious obscenities are committed in the name of love.

  • ISBN10 0553503855
  • ISBN13 9780553503852
  • Publish Date 1 October 1998 (first published 1 November 1994)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 24 April 2012
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Imprint Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 334
  • Language English