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Small Mercies: ´can´t-put-it-down entertainment´ Stephen King

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`Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can`t-put-it-down entertainment` Stephen King`A jaw-dropping thriller... a resonant, unflinching story written by a novelist who is simply one of the best around` Gillian FlynnNew York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River - an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston`s history.`Mrs. Fennessy, please go home.``And do what?``Whatever you do when you`re home.``And then what?``Get up the next day and do it again.`She shakes her head. `That`s not living.``It is if you can find the small blessings.`She smiles, but her eyes shine with agony. `All my small blessings are gone.`In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of `Southie`, the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.One night Mary Pat`s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn`t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances.The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched - asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don`t take kindly to any threat to their business.Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city`s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism.

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