The lives of these men converge once again when Katie Marcus, Jimmy's oldest daughter, is murdered. Dave Boyle, whose life peaked during his glory days as a high school baseball star, is a husband and father who has drifted through a series of dead-end jobs and is struggling continuously with the poisonous impulses that are the primary legacy of his abduction. The charismatic Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who has opted for the straight life and is raising a family and working as the proprietor of a local mom-and-pop grocery. His marriage has recently ended, and both his personal and professional lives are in disarray. Sean Devine is now a homicide investigator for the Massachusetts State Police. Lehane then moves the narrative forward to a critical week in the summer of 2000. Two of the boys - Jimmy and Sean - escape, but ten-year-old Dave Boyle is not so fortunate and finds himself trapped in a four-day ordeal that changes his life forever. The defining event of the novel occurs when three young boys - Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle - encounter a pair of roving child molesters who pass themselves off as policemen. Mystic River begins in 1975 in the blue-collar Boston community of East Buckingham. With Mystic River, a passionate, ambitious novel of crime, punishment, and misplaced revenge, Lehane fulfills his early promise and takes his place as an important American writer. The Barnes & Noble Review After publishing five books in the popular series featuring Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, Dennis Lehane has finally come into his own.
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