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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle are best friends, growing up and playing together in a small town until one fateful day a car drives up and kidnaps Dave. He eventually escapes but is forever scarred by the experience and the social fallout of it in school also means the friendship between the three fall apart and they move on with their lives. We pick back up on the story 25 years down the line, Sean is a decorated policeman whose wife just left him, Jimmy is an ex-con with a wife and 3 daughters, and Dave was a previous baseball star in a now dying marriage, still haunted by his experiences with the kidnappers.
One day the three are reunited again - Jimmy's daughter is murdered with Sean assigned to the case and Dave seems to be the most suspect, having come home that same night covered in someone else's blood.
From here we follow a tragedy of events as things are revealed and uncovered, relationships are tested and reinforced, and overhanging it all is the gritty dark past of the men's childhood. The women in this story are equally if not more fascinating and complex than our 3 main leads, and Lehane writes an immensely engrossing tale of well-rounded characters engaging in shades of grey.
Graphic: Death, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Death of parent
Minor: Bullying, Vomit, Classism
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail