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Dennis Lehane (Author)
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Publication Date: 22 Oct 2007

Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda Cready.

Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation into her abduction, the police have uncovered nothing. And as the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone - vanished so completely that she seems never to have existed.

Then a second child disappears.

Confronted with a police force seething with lethal secrets, Kenzie and Gennaro soon discover that those who go looking for the missing may not come back alive.

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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam (22 Oct 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0553818813
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553818819
  • Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 3.2 x 17.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 68,464 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Cheese Olamon, "a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty- pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who'd somehow arrived at the misconception he was black", is telling old high school friends, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, why they have to convince another mutual chum, dealer Bubba Rugowski, that Cheese didn't try to have him killed. "You know I'm clean when it comes to what happened to him. You want me alive. Okay? Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone."

Of all the chilling, completely credible scenes of sadness, destruction and betrayal in Dennis Lehane's fourth and possibly best book about Kenzie and Gennaro, this moment stands out because it captures in a few pages the essence of Lehane's success.

Private detectives Kenzie and Gennaro, who still live in the same working-class Dorchester neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts, where they grew up, have gone to visit drug dealer Cheese in prison because they think he's involved the kidnapping of 4-year-old Amanda McCready. Without sentimentalising the grotesque figure of Cheese, Lehane tells us enough about his past to make us understand why he and the two detectives might share enough trust to save a child's life when all the best efforts of traditional law enforcement have failed. By putting Kenzie and Gennaro just to one side of the law (but not totally outside--they have several cop friends--a very important part of the story), Lehane adds depth and edge to traditional genre relationships. The love affair between Kenzie and Gennaro--interrupted by her marriage to his friend--is another perfectly controlled element that grows and changes as we watch. Surrounded by dead, abused and missing children, Kenzie mourns and rages; Gennaro longs for one of her own. The choices made by both of them in the final pages of this absolutely gripping story have the inevitability of life and the dazzling beauty of art.

Other Kenzie/Gennaro books available in paperback are: Darkness, Take My Hand, A Drink Before the War, Sacred. -- Dick Adler --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Lehane tackles corruption in many forms as he brings his complicated plot to its satisfying resolution, at the same time leaving readers to ponder moral questions about social and individual responsibility long after the last page is turned (Publishers Weekly )

Gone, Baby Gone is a tough, true powerful story written by a stunningly good novelist, one of our very best (James Patterson )
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly written - pure class 22 Mar 2002
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Format:Paperback
Gennaro and Kenzie are yet again on a multi-faceted trail involving some of the most disturbing sides of humanity. This time we are on the trail of a missing child, lost drug money; all disappearing in to thin air. Although there are references to other books - the forward pace of the storyline is maintained throughout. I love Bubba (wouldn't want to be on his wrong side though!) and Lehane manages to weave deep emotions throughout; in fact, this one made me cry. If you've never read Lehane before, buy this one, read it, and they buy the rest. You won't regret it.
Hope he doesn't take too long writing the next one.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Awe Inspiring 28 Sep 2001
By Florry
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I cried when I read parts of this. I think a key part of Lehane's writing abilities are how the characters are human - flawed and realistic. Even the good guys have off days or less than noble thoughts - and the bad guys occasionally surpise you with deeds that you'd expect too noble for them. And as for Bubba - he's in a class of his own. Read all of these books - he deserves to be a star in the UK.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Clever plot, great writing 15 Jun 2006
By Lis
Format:Paperback
Lehane's story about how private investigators Kenzie & Gennaro are drawn into the search for a missing child, the neglected Amanda McCready, is more than just a stonking good mystery/detective novel.

It's also a thought-provoking read, dealing with the sometimes difficult subject of child neglect and abuse, and the efforts of a few souls to offer a few lucky children a better life. There is no happy ending in this story, in fact the closing pages are heart wrenching in their "unfairness".

Like other Lehane novels I've read, the plot is well constructed and the story well paced. There's the usual sprinkling of humour to lighten the tone, too. All in all a good read. So much so that my (French) husband devoured this book whilst on holiday. I've never seen him reading so much!

You won't be disappointed by this book. If you are already familiar with Lehane then you know what to expect, and if you're not this book is as good as any to start with.
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5.0 out of 5 stars simply compelling
This is the second Dennis Lehane novel I have read. I have had mixed emotions with both, Couldn't wait to finish it so that I could go on to the next, but at the same time I was... Read more
Published 3 days ago by Mistygirl
5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the read
This is the first Dennis Lehane book I have read, but it certainly won't be the last. Right from the off you are drawn in by the plight of those seeking help and the twists and... Read more
Published 6 days ago by Claire Bufton
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read
I really enjoyed this book. As all Dennis Lehane books, it was so easy to get into. The story was well paced and gripped me all the way to the very last page. Read more
Published 15 days ago by bookworm
3.0 out of 5 stars Great...
Brilliant, brilliant book
I wouldn't recommend it to people that have kids though as some parts are described quite graphically
Published 28 days ago by Tommy Ainsworth
2.0 out of 5 stars Not as edgy as expected
I was expecting great things, heard people raving about Lehane. Compared to John Connelly and Chris Mooney, it was boring as hell. Read more
Published 2 months ago by The Reader
5.0 out of 5 stars Gone, Baby, gone
I Enjoy this Author - good read, nothing else to say about this book apart from received in good time period
Published 3 months ago by Elizabeth Bray
5.0 out of 5 stars Suffer the little children
The fourth, and arguably the best, of the Kenzie-Gennaro novels. (Certainly the best known due to Ben Affleck's very fine cinema version of the story). Read more
Published 8 months ago by Aidan J. McQuade
5.0 out of 5 stars Many Rivers to Cross....
Have just finished my 5th re-reading of this book - a masterpiece, to put it lightly, in its genre. There is so much in here to think about..to rail about...to weep about. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mrs. Barbara Mitchell
4.0 out of 5 stars gone, baby, gone
Yeah. Wow. This book was something else. Where to begin?

I've said it before and I will do so again: Lehane has a talent for writing sick and twisted characters. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Ali
4.0 out of 5 stars Another Edgy Lehane, Full of Moral Ambiguity as per
Enjoyed this very much. Am reading Lehane in order, which as everyone says, is the right thing to do. Read more
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