![]() ![]() ![]() The other, his burning of Atlanta scene, is how the citizens of Boston react to the police strike. One was the collapse of a vast molasses container that resulted in a flood of the stuff with waves 15 feet high. Lehane has done his homework and offers considerable information about the time. This is a sweeping effort, as Lehane projects himself through a Dickensian lens, covering geography from Boston to Ohio to Tulsa, from Babe Ruth to the governor of Massachusetts to the lowliest criminal element. ![]() Things were much worse than I’d imagined. There is much in here about the condition of the working man, and it is startling, even to someone who has read quite a bit about the struggle of labor for decent treatment. The two primary characters are Danny Coughlin, a Boston cop in a long tradition, and Luther Laurence, a poor black. Set in the period around World War I, Lehane offers us a sense of the times, and they are not pretty. This novel is his attempt to break out into a larger literary world. Mystic River was his opus magnus, and his Boston hard-boileds are quite good. ![]()
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