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SMALL MERCIES - DENNIS LEHANE GEBUNDEN

?Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful  page-turning
situations.? ?Gillian Flynn ?One of the great diabolical thriller kings.??New York Times
?Lehane has built a career as a philosopher of the human animal.??Noah Hawley The acclaimed New
York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River?an all-consuming
tale of revenge  family love  festering hate  and insidious power  set against one of the most
tumultuous episodes in Boston's history. In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and
Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived
her entire life in the housing projects of ?Southie ? the Irish American enclave that
stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat's teenage
daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening  a young Black man is
found dead  struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem
unconnected. But Mary Pat  propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter  begins
turning over stones best left untouched?asking questions that bother Marty Butler  chieftain of
the Irish mob  and the men who work for him  men who don't take kindly to any threat to their
business. Set against the hot  tumultuous months when the city's desegregation of its public
schools exploded in violence  Small Mercies is a superb thriller  a brutal depiction of
criminality and power  and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is
a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.

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