Dennis Lehane. (2014). The Drop. HarperCollins.

Dennis Lehane. 2014. The Drop. HarperCollins.

Dennis Lehane, The Drop. HarperCollins, 2014.

Dennis Lehane. The Drop. HarperCollins, 2014.

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     Dennis Lehane is the author of thirteen novels—including the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day—as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in California with his family.

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Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini.

Three days after Christmas, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live rescues an abused puppy from a trash can and meets a damaged woman looking for something to believe in. As their relationship grows, they cross paths with the Chechen mafia; a man grown dangerous with age and thwarted hopes; two hapless stick-up artists; a very curious cop; and the original owner of the puppy, who wants his dog back. . . .

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     "Lehane...is a master of the sort of deadpan-noir pioneered by the late Elmore Leonard... It's a style full of dark situational humor, sudden mayhem and quirky regional grammar." — Wall Street Journal

     "This book is as authentically grounded in place as his earlier works and more pleasurable than any tie-in novelization...has a right to be. And The Drop benefits from bracing blasts of Lehane-ian humor." — Boston Globe

     "Understated and perfectly paced....What makes The Drop so good is not just the pacing, which is just about right, but the mood.... There's also the very stylish writing. — Philadelphia Inquirer

     "A tight, gritty little tale of working-class crime in Boston... Lehane breathes pulsing life into his story through the small details of his stoop-shouldered characters' lives, investing their every mannerism with unspoken emotion and the weight of too many bad decisions, all of which makes Bob's transformation from quiet desperation to quiet determination a powerful kind of existential drama." — Booklist (starred review)

     "The bard of blue-collar Boston crime returns with a sleight-of-hand novel tinged with sin and redemption." — Kirkus Reviews

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     July 28, 2014
     This gritty gem from Lehane (Mystic River) has a curious origin. The short story “Animal Rescue,” which appeared in 2009’s Boston Noir, was the basis for the screenplay of the soon-to-be-released film The Drop, to which this is the tie-in. Boston bartender Bob Saginowski pulls a beaten pup from a winter trash can, a small good deed with large consequences. The rescue leads Bob to Nadia Dunn, who helps him take care of the dog, and also to crazy Eric Deeds, who claims the dog is his. While Bob tries to fend off Deeds, his cousin Marv, onetime owner of Cousin Marv’s bar, contends with money issues and pride and the Chechens, who now own his bar and use it as a money drop. A parade of weary, quirky characters—thieves, thugs, and hard guys—will resonate with Lehane fans. Amid his struggles, Bob establishes a tenuous relationship with Nadia, and finally takes a stand in this stark and moving short novel. Agent: Ann Rittenberg, Ann Rittenberg Literary.

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     September 15, 2014
     The bard of blue-collar Boston crime returns with a sleight-of-hand novel tinged with sin and redemption. The latest from Lehane (Live by Night, 2012, etc.) is a novel with an unusual genesis, and it's shorter and less intricate than usual. It began when he was asked to adapt one of his short stories ("Animal Rescue") for a movie. Though his novels have seen success on the big screen, this was his screenwriting debut, and it preceded the writing of this book, which might be dismissed, in lesser hands, as a "novelization" of the film. It's richer than a mere re-creation of a movie on the page because the author gets inside the heads and thoughts of his characters in a way that a movie generally can't. And this particular perspective is crucial when it comes to protagonist Bob, a keep-to-himself bartender who works for Cousin Marv. Both men, like pretty much every man in their neighborhood, have some sort of shady past, but the two have apparently gone comparatively straight. Yet Cousin Marv's bar remains used by the Chechen mobsters who own it as a money drop for transferring funds. Such is the backdrop for what appears to be the main plot, in which lonesome, loveless Bob finds a beaten puppy in a trash can and is persuaded by a woman who witnesses the incident (and who has her own questionable past) to take it home. Since "all he wanted was to not be alone," the connection with both the dog and the woman proves so transforming that he "suspected they might have been brought together by something other than chance." But there's another connection, a crazy thug and rumored killer who claims that both the dog and the woman are his. As the novel progresses, every character has secrets and revelations-except maybe Rocco, the dog-as the plot pivots in some surprising directions. Even one of the novelist's lesser efforts has the signature style, edge and heart to delight fans.

     COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     Starred review from September 1, 2014
     Yes, this short novel is technically a novelizationit's adapted from Lehane's screenplay for a movie of the same name, which itself was adapted from Lehane's short story Animal Rescuebut don't let the book's mixed parentage get in the way. This is a tight, gritty little tale of working-class crime in Boston, reminiscent not only of Lehane's earlier crime fiction, but also of the work of the great George V. Higgins. Bob Saginowski is a lonely bartender working at a tired watering hole called Cousin Marv'sworking for Cousin Marv himself, in fact, who is Bob's actual cousin. The sleepy joint, home to a motley crew of beer-soaked regulars, serves as a drop bar through which Chechen gangsters continually move thousands of ill-gotten dollars. Until one night when a couple of hapless stickup men, who seemingly wandered in from an Elmore Leonard novel, steal the loot, leaving Cousin Marv and, by extension, bartender Bob in a pickle with the Chechens. Meanwhile, Bob rescues an abandoned dog, meets a girl who knows dogs, tangles with another lowlife claiming to be the dog's owner, and finds himself feeling oddly determined to overcome 20 years of lethargy. Like both Higgins and Leonard, Lehane breathes pulsing life into his story through the small details of his stoop-shouldered characters' lives, investing their every mannerism with unspoken emotion and the weight of too many bad decisions, all of which makes Bob's transformation from quiet desperation to quiet determination a powerful kind of existential drama. And there's a dog, too! HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Expect the movie version to draw readers to this streetwise story, which marks Lehane's return from broad-canvas historical fiction to the close quarters of Boston's mean streets.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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