The Drop Low Price CD (CD-Audio)

from BillPilgrim

This is a novelization of a movie that was just released, with a screenplay by Lehane. It is a good story, but it is a very quick read - an undersized book with large font, so much fewer words per page than the usual and only about 200 pages anyway. So it lacks musch of the depth and breath that ...

from konastories

Joy's review: This is a short, light read from a guy that really knows how to write. Bartender finds a beat-up dog; the dog gives him some backbone and personality; bad guys turn up; interesting stuff happens. My main complaint is that I dreaded turning pages because I was expecting something bad...

from Beamis12

3.5 Such an amazing collection of characters and all set in very familiar ground for LeHane, the cruel underside of Boston. A bar robbed, the wrong bar, one that is actually owned by a Chechen mob. A pathetic and abused pug proves to be the initialing factor that a lonely man named Bob needs to a...

from joeydag

Once I started reading this gritty novel I did not want to stop. To me the prose style at times sounds something like Hemingway and at others like Hammett. There are quite a few odd characters on display - Cousin Marv, Rardy, Deeds - and the protagonist, Bob, is a box of surprises. He slowly grow...

from SheTreadsSoftly

The Drop by Dennis Lehane is a very highly recommended, gritty, bleak crime novel set in Boston.Bob Saginowski works as a bartender for his cousin Marv in a bar Marv used to own. Now the bar is owned by the Chechen mafia. Bob, an introspective loner who regularly attends mass but never takes comm...