A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane

A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane

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.

In this gripping private investigator series debut, 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 this Boston crime thriller, finding the truth isn't just a dirty business . . . it's deadly.

Dennis Lehane's books include the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, as well as Prayers for Rain, Gone, Baby, Gone, Sacred, Darkness, Take My Hand, A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Outstanding Debut Novel, and The Given Day. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and now divides his time between Boston and Florida.