Audiobooks by Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of The Given Day and Live by Night, returns with a psychologically and morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must confront the cost of his criminal past and present. Ten years have passed since Joe Coughlin's enemies killed his wife and destroyed his empire, and much has changed. Prohibition is dead, the world is at war again, and Joe's son, Tomas, is growing up. Now, the former crime kingpin works as a consigliore to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, his wife's homeland. A master who moves in and out of the black, white, and Cuban underworlds, Joe effortlessly mixes with Tampa's social elite, U.S. Naval intelligence, the Lansky-Luciano mob, and the mob-financed government of Fulgencio Batista. He has everything, money, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity. But success cannot protect him from the dark truth of his past, and ultimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full. Dennis Lehane vividly recreates the rise of the mob during a world at war, from a masterfully choreographed Ash Wednesday gun battle in the streets of Ybor City to a chilling, heartbreaking climax in a Cuban sugar cane field. Told with verve and skill, World Gone By is a superb work of historical fiction from one of "the most interesting and accomplished American novelists" (Washington Post) writing today.

Dennis Lehane (Author), Jim Frangione (Narrator)

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The Given Day

Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families'one black, one white'swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power. Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his way home to his pregnant wife. Here, too, are some of the most influential figures of the era'Babe Ruth; Eugene O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red-chasing attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer named John Hoover. Coursing through some of the pivotal events of the time'including the Spanish Influenza pandemic'and culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. As Danny, Luther, and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation, and hope that will change all their lives.

Dennis Lehane (Author), Michael Boatman (Narrator)

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The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel

George V. Higgins, the internationally-acclaimed grand master of crime fiction, returns to thrill listeners with this riveting tale of cops, robbers, and big city low life. An expertly crafted story of loyalty and betrayal, it is peppered with wonderfully authentic dialogue and seedy black market atmosphere. Eddie Coyle is a small-time gun dealer with a big-time problem: who to sell out to avoid going to prison. While mob bosses, cops, hoods, gunmen, thieves, and executioners give Eddie plenty of choices, he has few options. Any decision could cost him his life. Shady deals and accusations fly as fast and deadly as bullets in this riveting audiobook. The combination of Higgins and narrator Mark Hammer will leave you with mental images of crime and justice that you never thought possible before.

Dennis Lehane, George V. Higgins (Author), Mark Hammer (Narrator)

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The Drop

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

Dennis Lehane (Author), Jim Frangione (Narrator)

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Since We Fell: A Novel

Since We Fell follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel’s marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer unimaginable fears and mind-altering truths. By turns heart- breaking, suspenseful, romantic, and sophisticated, Since We Fell is a novel of profound psychological insight and tension. It is Dennis Lehane at his very best.

Dennis Lehane (Author), Julia Whelan (Narrator)

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Shutter Island: A Novel

Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels s come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry; an approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing ... Or is there another, more personal reason why he has come there? As the investigation deepens, the questions only mount. The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they my never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane . . .

Dennis Lehane (Author), David Strathairn (Narrator)

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Shutter Island (Gekürzt)

1954 untersucht der US-Marshall Edward Daniels mit seinem Partner Chuck Aule das rätselhafte Verschwinden einer Patientin aus dem auf der Insel Shutter Island untergebrachten Spezialgefängis für geistesgestörte Schwerverbrecher. Die Patientin, eine mehrfache Kindesmörderin namens Rachel Solando, hatte es geschafft, ohne Spuren zu hinterlassen aus ihrer verschlossenen Zelle zu entkommen. Edward Daniels hat außerdem ein privates Interesse an dem Auftrag: Er vermutet den Mörder seiner Frau Dolores, Andrew Laeddis, auf Shutter Island. Vom ersten Moment an haben die beiden Marshalls das Gefühl, dass die Gefängnisleitung etwas zu verbergen hat. Der Verdacht, dass verbotene Experimente an den geisteskranken Kriminellen durchgeführt werden, verdichtet sich. Nachdem Daniels aus einer verschlüsselten Botschaft der verschwundenen Rachel Solando den Hinweis entnehmen konnte, dass ein nichtregistrierter Insasse existiert, wird seine Suche nach Laeddis zu Besessenheit. Während eines Hurrikanes, der die Insel von der Außenwelt abschneidet, dringt er mit seinem Partner in den abgetrennten Block C ein, in dem die gefährlichsten Verbrecher untergebracht sind. Hier finden sich erste Anhaltspunkte für die Anwesenheit Laeddis'. Die Ereignisse spitzen sich dramatisch zu, als sein Partner Chuck Aule spurlos verschwindet. Daniels entkommt im letzten Augenblick den Wachmannschaften, schafft es aber nicht, die Insel zu verlassen. Schließlich dringt er in den Leuchtturm ein, in dem er den Schauplatz der medizinischen Experimente und seinen gefangenen Partner Chuck vermutet.

Dennis Lehane (Author), Oliver Rohrbeck (Narrator)

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Shutter Island

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades -- with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.

Dennis Lehane (Author), David Strathairn, Tom Stechschulte (Narrator)

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Sacred: A Novel

The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel. A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-nonsense streets of Boston's blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen it all'and survived. But this case leads them into unexpected territory where nothing is sacred'a land of lies and corruption where trusting anyone could get them killed . . . where taking any step could be their last.

Dennis Lehane (Author), Jonathan Davis (Narrator)

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Prayers for Rain

The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane delivers a shattering tale of evil, depravity, and justice that captures the dark realism of Boston's gritty blue-collar streets. Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why a former client, a perky woman in love with life, could, within six months, jump naked from a Boston landmark'the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction. What he finds is a sadistic stalker who targeted the young woman and methodically drove her to her death. A monster the law can't touch. But Kenzie can. He and his former partner, Angela Gennaro, will fight a mind-twisting battle against this psychopath even as he turns his tricks on them.

Dennis Lehane (Author), Jonathan Davis (Narrator)

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Mystic River

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed the boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do horrific things. When Jimmy's daughter is murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood. While Sean attempts to use the law to return peace and order to the neighborhood, Jimmy finds his need for vengeance pushing him ever closer to a moral abyss from which he won't be able to return.

Dennis Lehane (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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Mystic River

Dennis DLehane, Dennis Lehane (Author), David Strathairn (Narrator)

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