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- Mass Market Paperback: 416
pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.24 x 6.79 x 4.22
- Publisher: Harper Mass Market
Paperbacks; Reissue edition (May 2, 2000)
- ISBN: 0380730367
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Book
Description
The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane delivers a
shattering tale of evil, depravity, and justice that captures
the dark realism of Boston?s gritty blue-collar streets.
Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why a
former client, a perky woman in love with life, could, within
six months, jump naked from a Boston landmark -- the final fall
in a spiral of self-destruction.
What he finds is a sadistic stalker who targeted the young
woman and methodically drove her to her death. A monster the law
can?t touch. But Kenzie can. He and his former partner, Angela
Gennaro, will fight a mind-twisting battle against this
psychopath even as he turns his tricks on them.
Prayers
for Rain is Dennis Lehane's
fifth installment in his intricately plotted, beautifully
written, and much underacknowledged Boston mystery series.
Lehane's books reflect our morally complex times, when the
borders between right and wrong are somewhat blurry.
Private investigator Patrick Kenzie is
in the middle of a personal crisis--he's lost his passion for
the profession, and is tired of people with their
"predictable vices, their predictable needs and wants and
dormant desires." Angie Gennaro, his occasional sweetheart,
lifelong friend, and fellow investigator has quit the
business.
She's still deeply resentful about
Patrick's handling of the Amanda McCready case, the focus of Gone,
Baby, Gone. Without Angie, private investigating has lost
its fizz.
The suicide of a former client, Karen
Nichols, gives Kenzie his investigative itch back. Six months
earlier, Kenzie tracked down a stalker who had been harassing
Nichols, and put an end to his heinous hobby.
But Nichols needed more help than this
PI could ever have imagined. "She'd been drowning, and I'd
been busy." The successful, middle-class young woman had
been sinking into a sea of drugs, alcohol, and prostitution,
hitting the bottom when she jumped from the Boston Custom
House.
Her death consumes Kenzie--he is
convinced that someone pulled her into the vortex, although her
nearest and dearest simply call her weak.
Kenzie teams up with his explosive,
loving, gun-toting friend Bubba Rogowski, and, after a boozy
reunion, Angie Gennaro joins them.
This fearless threesome must surely be
the most original team in contemporary crime fiction. Good at
the core--but seriously screwed up by various demons from their
pasts--tact and decorum is hardly their style.
They work their way across Boston,
doing whatever it takes to question Nichols's family and
acquaintances. By unveiling the real Nichols, tragic family
secrets, betrayals, and conspiracies are also unmasked.
If you haven't experienced Dennis
Lehane's world before, be prepared for an invigorating new
reading experience. --Naomi Gesinger
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