A Drink Before the War Audiobook (Free)

As richly organic and brutal as the terrain it depicts, here is the mesmerizing, darkly first book that heralded the appearance of Dennis Lehane, the professional of the new noir-and introduced Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough personal investigators weaned for the blue-collar roads of Dorchester.

A cabal of powerful Boston politicians is ready to pay Kenzie and Gennaro a lot of money for a seemingly small job: to find a missing cleaning female who stole some key papers. As Kenzie and Gennaro find out, however, this criminal offense is no regular fraud. It’s about justice, about right and wrong. But in Boston, locating the truth isn’t only a filthy business . it’s deadly.