He's a loving dadĪnd husband, but he's haunted and deeply unstable. Homicide detective and Dave-well, Dave is damaged goods. Trio, is an ex-con whose gone straight and owns a small market. The bulk of 'Mystic River' is set 25 years later. They rape theīoy over the course of four days before he manages to escape. Lehane's nightmare revision of his own past, they're not cops. They order the less self-assured Dave into their car and, in In the prologue to 'Mystic River,' set in 1975, three boys-Jimmy, Sean andĭave-are writing their names in wet cement when two men claiming to be copsĪpproach. Plainclothes policemen for street fighting, but realized later that he'd never Revolves around a murder investigation but that veers from the procedural into You more about how cities work than many so-called literary novelists do.Īfter a series of deeply felt but conventional detective thrillers set inīoston, Lehane took a swing at the moon in 'Mystic River,' a book that Film critic David Edelstein has a review.ĭennis Lehane is one of a new breed of urban noir writers who manage to tell It stars Sean Penn, Tim RobbinsĪnd Kevin Bacon as former childhood friends drawn together as adults by a Mystery novel and directed by Clint Eastwood.

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