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Private 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.
Other Kenzie/Gennaro books available in paperback: Darkness, Take My Hand, A Drink Before the War, Sacred. --Dick Adler
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.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: NEUF. Atrick Kenzie et Angela Gennaro, les deux héros de Dennis Lehane, sont chargés de retrouver une petite fille de quatre ans, Amanda, mystérieusement disparue un soir d'automne. Curieusement, la mère d'Amanda paraît peu concernée par ce qui est arrivé à sa fille, qu'elle avait laissée seule le soir du drame pour aller dans un bar. Sa vie semble régie par la télévision, l'alcool et la drogue. Patrick et Angie découvrent d'ailleurs que la jeune femme travaillait pour le compte d'un dénommé Cheddar Olamon et qu'elle aurait détourné les deux cent mille dollars de sa dernière livraison. Olamon se serait-il vengé en kidnappant la fille de son «employée» ? Cette quatrième aventure de Kenzie et Gennaro distille une petite musique déchirante et se termine par une chute aussi inattendue que bouleversante.Gone, baby, gone vient d'être porté à l'écran par Ben Affleck avec Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman et Ed Harris. - Nombre de page(s) : 553 - Poids : 260g - Langue : ANGLAIS (ETATS-UNIS) - Genre : Policier / Thriller format poche RIVAGES POCHE. Seller Inventory # N9782743617424