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A drink before the war [electronic resource] / Dennis Lehane.
A cadre of powerful Massachusetts politicians offers Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro big money for a small job: find the missing cleaning woman who allegedly stole confidential Statehouse documents. But there's much more to this crime than anyone realizes. What the woman was really after was justice--and out on the Boston streets, the truth can turn stark and ugly. .
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- ISBN: 9780062015655 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 0062015656 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : HarperTorch, [2000], c1994.
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| General Note: | Description based on print version record. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
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| Subject: | Private investigators > Massachusetts > Boston > Fiction. Family violence > Fiction. Boston (Mass.) > Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. |
| Genre: | EBOOK. Mystery fiction. Electronic books. |
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Electronic resources
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2007 September #1
Dennis Lehane's debut, A Drink Before the War (HarperTorch: HarperCollins. 1996. ISBN 978-0-380-72623-3. pap. $7.99), introduces Boston PIs Patrick Kenze and Angela Gennaro, who are hired by politicians to find a black cleaning woman who stole important documents. Lehane acknowledged in an interview that this gripping crime novel about racism was slightly inspired by the 1998 Charles Stuart case, in which a white husband killed his pregnant wife, wounded himself, and blamed the incident on an African American male. An excellent example of how a good writer can use an actual incident as a stepping stone to creating something completely different and original. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
