The Drop

De: Dennis Lehane

Narrado por: Jim Frangione

New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini.

Three days after Christmas, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live rescues an abused puppy from a trash can and meets a damaged woman looking for something to believe in. As their relationship grows, they cross paths with the Chechen mafia; a man grown dangerous with age and thwarted hopes; two hapless stick-up artists; a very curious cop; and the original owner of the puppy, who wants his dog back. . . .

Another amazing Lehane

Characters with depth and a well written novel. The reason reading was invented. Amazing work.

Simple yet tightly knit story grounded in reality

It does read like a script that there is a lot of dialogue between characters, but book is excellent, and I throughly enjoyed it. It is a very focused book on few characters. Author does a great job developing these characters, and I got to know them very well.

Story is simple but powerful rooted in gritty reality that I could see these events could take place in rea life. At times, readers are introduced to either very accomplished tough guys, or naive incompetent ones. This books walks a fine line between these characters which are possibly neither. It made a very interesting read. This is my first Lehane book, but it will not be the last. I highly recommend Lehane.

Narrator did a great job portraying the grittiness of various tough guys. Overall, narrator is able to capture the spirit of the book. Again, I would be looking for other books narrated by from Jim Frangione.

Saw the movie…..

Liked the book so much better. Definately worth the listen. Loved the listen looking forward to more of his books in the future

Excellent

Lebanese cane write dialog and create characters so very real and deep it's like you grew up with them.
satisfying

It Kept Me Listening (and Squirming)

I wanted to keep listening to the story just to see how all of the people in it were going to survive the questionable decisions they made as the story goes on. It's a world where almost no one's intentions are completely pure. The main characters seem to get squeezed tighter and tighter as the story moves forward, unable to avoid the trouble that comes with being close to organized crime. Parts of it also give credence to the expression "No good deed goes unpunished."
The ending is about as upbeat as one could expect, given all of the bad things and people that are in it.
The character development is quite good. The images created by the author are vivid and disturbing.
There is also an undercurrent running through the story about the nature of forgiveness, are some actions are so bad as to be unforgivable, and what is required to receive forgiveness.
The narrator does a good job of intonation with the different characters (who are either from Boston or Chechnya) - maybe he goes a little over the top sometimes, but not in an annoying way.