num_pages: 277
description: Alternate Cover Edition can be found here and here . As richly complex and brutal as the terrain it depicts, here is the mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir -- and introduced Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigators weaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.A cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find the missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. As Kenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's about justice. About right and wrong. But in Boston, finding the truth isn't just a dirty business ... it's deadly.
language: English
title: A Drink Before the War
titlecomplete: A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
characters: Angie Gennaro, Bubba Rogowski, Patrick Kenzie
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Suspense, Novels, Thriller, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 41381
places: Boston, Massachusetts
series: Kenzie & Gennaro
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best First PI Novel
publisher: Avon Books