Darkness, Take My Hand
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DENNIS
LEHANE
DARKNESS, TAKE MY HAND
Dedication
This novel is dedicated to Mal Ellenburg and Sterling Watson for a thousand good arguments about the nature of the craft and the nature of the beast.
Epigraph
We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
—Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory
Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Three days ago, on the first official night of winter…
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Angie and I were up in our belfry office trying…
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As we left Lewis Wharf and walked up Commercial, the…
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“Left,” Bubba said. Then, “About eight inches to your right.
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By ten that night, Angie and I were sitting in…
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Except for a single white track light in the kitchen…
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It was close to midnight when I left Diandra’s, and…
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Shortly after Grace left, Diandra called. Stan Timpson would give…
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My father, even before he entered the arena himself, had…
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By the time I reached Meeting House Hill, the temperature…
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I’d crawled into bed at four that morning, been awakened…
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The second and third floors of McIrwin Hall housed the…
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For another week, Angie and I tailed Jason around campus…
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“Careful, Mae,” Grace said.
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Grace and I weren’t quite at the point yet where…
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“Cal Morrison wasn’t crucified,” I said.
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It was snowing on a bright summer day when Kara…
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“Why’s Alec Hardiman want to talk to me?”
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We found Jade, Gabrielle, and Lauren dining together in the…
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In an abandoned trucking depot along the waterfront in South…
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When I got back upstairs, the first thing I did…
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“You’re going to go see Alec Hardiman,” Bolton said without…
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Alec Hardiman was forty-one years old, but looked fifteen years…
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Lief led us through a maze of maintenance corridors, the…
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Devin faxed us a copy of Evandro Arujo’s photo from…
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“I’m supposed to be afraid of this guy?” Phil held…
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“Why didn’t he take off the cowboy hat?” I said…
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Around eleven, I called Devin on the walkie-talkie and told…
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“What did these people do?” Angie said.
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Angie and I walked to a donut shop on Boston…
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Patrick,
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In the days and weeks after Cal Morrison was killed…
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I was the first one out of Angie’s house. I…
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Our cab driver maneuvered the icy streets with a deft…
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Before I could speak, Evandro pressed a stiletto against the…
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By the time the cops sorted everything out, Angie was…
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Four eleven South Street was the only vacant building on…
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I didn’t like the way Pine stood over the elevator…
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“How you guys doing?” Gerry said.
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Gerry had run down to the cellar and crossed into…
Epilogue
A month after Gerry Glynn’s death, his killing ground was…
Acknowledgments
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