Moonlight Mile by Dennis LehaneMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I started reading this book on December 12th, 2010 and will probably be done with it in a week. Lehane has written a Top 500 novel with "Mystic River" and his "Shutter Island" was a very good book as well.
Page 73: I've read this much of the book in my first sitting. Lehane is one of those authors that immediately pulls you into the book and you want to keep on reading until the book is finished.
This is sort of a sequel to "Gone Baby Gone", which wasn't one of Lehane's better novels. In that book 4 year old Amanda McCready was kidnapped and Patrick Kenzie found the little girl. He broke up a kidnapping ring, although in this case most of the people that were kidnapped were better off. You'll have to read "Gone Baby Gone" to find out why. However a crime had still occurred so poor little Amanda was returned to her mother, in spite of the fact that she's not fit to parent. Now 12 years later Amanda has gone missing. Against his better wishes Kenzie is pulled back into finding her. There's going to be hell to pay for people getting in the way of Kenzie and his friend Bubba.
I finished reading this book on December 16th. It has the same sugar rush story telling that Dan Brown's books do, however there's a lot more substance in Lehane's writing. We find out what happens to some of the characters from "Gone Baby Gone" 12 years on. Lehane has Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro are featured in a few of his books. Also in this book we have some very bad Russian gangsters. The gangsters include the brutal but hilarious Yefim. He reminds me very much of the Joe Pesci character in "Good Fellas". We also have a slick double cross and some very bad people are killed along the way.
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