A Touch of Darkness
A Drink Before the War: A Darkness You Can't Escape
A serial killer is terrorising the streets of Boston, and their choice of victims seems to make no sense. They are depraved, brutal and unpredictable. And most importantly—they've been behind bars for the last twenty years... Private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro join the hunt for this murderous beast, whose actions—as they slowly discover—revolve around their own childhoods.
But how can a man sentenced to life in prison years ago possibly be a threat? What happened in the past that would make someone kill again? Patrick and Angela are playing for the highest stakes: their own lives and the lives of their loved ones. Each of them will lose someone, and there is nothing they can do to prevent it. You can't win a battle against a psychopath. Whether you win or lose, the darkness you touch will change you forever…
Dennis Lehane
This American author of Irish descent was born in the Dorchester neighbourhood of Boston. He made his literary debut with the novel *A Drink Before the War*, in which he introduced the private investigator duo Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. He returned to this unconventional detective pair five more times; particularly noteworthy are the books *Darkness, Take My Hand*, *Sacred*, and *Gone, Baby, Gone*, which actor Ben Affleck chose for his directorial debut. Two of the author's other standalone novels have also been made into films: *Mystic River* by Clint Eastwood and *Shutter Island* by Martin Scorsese. His short story *Animal Rescue* was also adapted in 2014 under the title *The Drop*, and a film version of the book *Live by Night*, which Lehane set during the American Prohibition era, is in production. In addition to writing shorter pieces (the collection *Coronado*) and compiling anthologies (*Boston Noir*), the author also writes for television (*The Wire*) and even played himself in the popular series *Castle*.
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