gone-baby-gone-by-dennis-lehane.jpgYes­ter­day evening, I caught a com­mer­cial for the movie, Gone Baby Gone fea­tur­ing Mor­gan Free­man, Casey Affleck, Ed Har­ris, etc and so forth that is being directed by Ben Affleck. I had to ask myself: could this be Den­nis Lehane’s Gone Baby Gone? Fea­tur­ing PI detec­tives Patrick Ken­zie and Angie Gen­naro? I’ve been wait­ing very patiently for Lehane to write another book in this series that started with the won­der­ful, A Drink the Before War. Any­one with news on that front, please share!

My favorite of the series is Dark­ness Take My Hand but I can see how Gone Baby Gone would make for an inter­est­ing movie. The plot revolves around a miss­ing kid whose mother is flaky and irre­spon­si­ble to say the least. The miss­ing child’s aunt approaches Patrick and Angie with the case but they both decline it at first. How­ever, after much prodding, they do take the case and things go wrong from there. The story ends with a moral dilemma that threat­ens to tear the two pro­tag­o­nists apart. It’s an end­ing that would spark much dis­cus­sion. If you’re a fan of the series then my next com­ment would make sense to you - I pretty much sided with Angie. What I love about Lehane is that he writes sto­ries that are morally ambigu­ous with flawed char­ac­ters. Noth­ing is ever black and white in his world. His mon­sters are human. I highly rec­om­mend his books.  Here is the syn­op­sis from Gone Baby Gone. Per­son­ally, I don’t think I’ll catch the film. However, I do feel a reread com­ing on.

The tough neigh­bor­hood of Dorch­ester is no place for the inno­cent or the weak. A ter­ri­tory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are lit­tered with the detri­tus of bro­ken fam­i­lies, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is miss­ing. Pri­vate inves­ti­ga­tors Patrick Ken­zie and Angela Gen­naro don’t want the case. But after pleas from the child’s aunt, they open an inves­ti­ga­tion that will ulti­mately risk everything—their rela­tion­ship, their san­ity, and even their lives—to find a lit­tle girl lost.

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