Bob, barman solitaire à Brooklyn est mêlé à un trafic qui consiste à utiliser le bar comme "money drop" pour faire passer de l'argent à des mafieux locaux. Un jour, le bar est cambriolé et une grosse somme disparaît. Bob et son cousin Marv doivent impérativement récupérer l'argent...

Ce roman est issu du scénario que Lehane avait développé pour Michaël R. Roskam. Le film sortira en France le 12 novembre sous le titre : QUAND VIENT LA NUIT.

Quand la nuit vient

Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times best-selling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. The Given Day tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power.Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his way home to his pregnant wife.Here, too, are some of the most influential figures of the era—Babe Ruth; Eugene O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red-chasing attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer named John Hoover.Coursing through some of the pivotal events of the time—including the Spanish Influenza pandemic—and culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. As Danny, Luther, and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation, and hope that will change all their lives.

Un pays à l'aube

Pat Kenzie riceve da una nota psichiatra l'incarico di proteggere il figlio perseguitato da minacce e messaggi anonimi. Sembra un caso di facile soluzione. È l'inizio di un incubo. Una serie di terrificanti omicidi, apparentemente senza legame, lo riporta di prepotenza nel passato, agli anni dell'adolescenza, vissuti nel quartiere degradato di Dorchester a Boston. Le vittime, su cui l'assassino ha infierito orribilmente, crocifiggendole e mutilandole, sono tutte persone che Pat Kenzie ha conosciuto. Nel corso di una frenetica caccia all'uomo, condotta anche con l'aiuto di Angie Gennaro e del fedele Bubba Rogowski, Pat si rende conto che il prossimo bersaglio potrebbe essere lui...

Ténèbres, prenez-moi la main

Été 1974, aux États Unis. Mary Pat est une mère célibataire qui vit à la dure dans  le  quartier irlandais de South Boston avec sa fille  de dix-sept ans, Julie -  "Jules" pour tous. Toutes deux s'opposent à la politique de déségrégation de la ville, qui veut forcer  les lycéens blancs et noirs à aller en classe ensemble. Un soir, après une sortie avec ses amis, Jules ne rentre pas à la maison.  Le  lendemain, un jeune noir est retrouvé mort sur  les rails du métro. Une coïncidence sur laquelle  personne ne s'attarde. Mary Pat cherche désespérément sa fille, mais tous, Police, mafieux du quartier, famille, restent muets. Face à ce mur de  silence, elle  décide de prendre  les choses en main. Sa fille, elle  va la chercher elle-même. En colère, armée de sa détermination et de sa vieille voiture, Mary Pat luttera seule  pour faire éclater la vérité. Quitte à briser quelques jambes. Grand roman américain,  Le  Silence  met à nu  le  cour sombre d'un pays à travers  le  portrait d'une mère farouche.

Le Silence

Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South Boston-they know it as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential state documents.Finding Jenna, however, is easy compared to staying alive once they've got her. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna's family and rival gang leaders while uncovering extortion, assassination, and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of government.
  A Drink Before the War

Un dernier verre avant la guerre (Kenzie & Gennaro #1)

Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book curse, he beats it to death with a stick. Sacred is a dark and dangerous updating of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, as dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Kenzie and Gennaro to find his daughter, Desiree. Patrick's mentor, a wonderfully devious detective named Jay Becker, has already disappeared in St. Petersburg, Florida, while working the case, so the two head there to pick up a trail. Desiree, of course, is nothing like the sweet and simple beauty described by her father, and even Chandler would have been amazed by the plot twists that Lehane manages to keep coming.

Sacre (French Edition)

L'Amérique se remet difficilement de la première guerre mondiale. De retour d'Europe, les soldats entendent retrouver leurs emplois, souvent occupés par des noirs en leur absence. Mais l'économie est ébranlée, et la vie devient de plus en plus difficile pour les classes populaires. Sur ce terreau fleurissent les luttes syndicales et prospèrent les groupes anarchistes et bolcheviques, ainsi que les premiers mouvements de défense de la cause noire.En 1918, Luther Laurence, jeune ouvrier noir de l'Ohio, est amené par un étonnant concours de circonstances à disputer une partie de base-ball face à Babe Ruth, étoile montante de ce sport. Une expérience amère qu'il n'oubliera jamais.Au même moment, l'agent Danny Coughlin, fils aîné d'un légendaire capitaine Irlandais de la police de Boston, est chargé d'une mission spéciale par son parrain, le retors lieutenant Mckenna : infiltrer les milieux syndicaux et anarchistes.A priori Luther et Danny n'ont rien en commun. Le destin va pourtant les réunir à Boston en 1919, l'année de tous les dangers.

Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. It is not the first time she has gone missing, as Patrick well knows - he was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped before, as a four-year-old.But this is not a simple case of a runaway girl. In fact, nothing in Amanda's life has been simple: brought up by the world's worst mother, neglected throughout her childhood, she has nonetheless blossomed into a formidably intelligent young woman. A young woman so bright that she can seemingly out-think and out-manoeuvre anyone...For Patrick, the case leads him down Boston's darkest, most dangerous streets - and into a world of shocking secrets that will threaten not only Amanda's life, but also his own and that of his partner Angie Gennaro.

MOONLIGHT MILE

Paperback edition of the latest standalone novel from the acclaimed crime author, whose books include }Shutter Island{, }Gone, Baby, Gone{ and }The Given Day{. Set in the prohibition era of 1920s America, it follows a small-town thief who becomes a feared and respected gangster

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