A Drink Before the War

About this book

The mesmerizing, darklyoriginal novel that heralded the arrival of now New York Timesbestselling author Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir—and introducedPatrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigatorsweaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.A cabal of powerful Bostonpoliticians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seeminglysmall job: to find a missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. AsKenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's aboutjustice, about right and wrong. But in Boston, finding the truth isn’t just adirty business . . . it’s deadly.