Brighton - Hardcover

Harvey, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006244297X ISBN 13: 9780062442970

Publisher: Ecco Press, 2016

Synopsis

"The f**king bomb! I loved it." --Stephen King

"I couldn't stop reading." --John Grisham

A gritty and suspenseful Boston thriller for fans of Dennis Lehane and The Departed

An extraordinary thriller--gripping, haunting, and marvelously told--about two friends growing up in a rapidly changing Boston, who must face the sins of their past in the midst of a series of brutal murders.

"You came back here to bury your past. . . . Thing is, you gotta kill it first."

Kevin Pearce--baseball star, honor student, the pride of Brighton--was fifteen when he left town in the back of his uncle's cab. He and his buddy Bobby Scales had just committed heinous violence for what they thought were the best of reasons. Kevin didn't want a pass, but he was getting it anyway. Bobby would stay and face the music; Kevin's future would remain bright as ever. At least that was the way things were supposed to work, except in Brighton things never work the way they're supposed to.

Twenty-six years later, Kevin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Boston Globe. He's never been back to his old block, having avoided his family and, especially, Bobby Scales. Then he learns his old friend is the prime suspect in a string of local murders. Suddenly, Kevin's headed home--to protect a friend and the secret they share. To report this story to the end and protect those he loves, he must face not only an elusive, slippery killer, but his own corrupted conscience.

A powerhouse of a thriller, Brighton is a riveting and elegiac exploration of promises broken, debts owed, and old wrongs made right . . . no matter what the cost.

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Review:

"I have enjoyed all of Michael Harvey's books, but his latest, BRIGHTON, is his best. I couldn't stop reading."--John Grisham

"The story is boldly told, from so many angles and points of view that the moral center keeps shifting. Even the characters who die won't go away in this fiercely felt lament for a neighborhood and a youth that never was."--New York Times Book Review

"Harvey's unfussy prose propels the plot."--Chicago Magazine

"Riveting. . . . Harvey's gritty tribute to the working-class neighborhoods of his youth is as authentically captured as the best of Dennis Lehane. Fans of Martin Scorsese's film The Departed will love the violent twists and turns of the novel's final chapters."--Library Journal, Starred Review

"The comparisons to Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, and Richard Price are all apt. . . .Brighton is a chilling tale. You'll come up for air, at the end, shivering and in need of a drink."--New York Journal of Books

"Harvey, who usually writes Chicago-based thrillers . . .ventures further afield to Boston, where a journalist returns to the rough neighborhood where he grew up to save an old friend from murder charges."--Chicago Reader

"Brighton is an excellent thriller about two friends growing up in a rapidly changing Boston, who must face the sins of their past in the midst of a series of brutal murders."--Omnivoracious

"This engrossing page-turner, which has been sold to the movies, brings to mind classics of the genre, like The Departed, which was set in a similar Boston underbelly."--National Book Review

"Creating characters vulnerable and brave is Harvey's artistry. He'll win prizes for this beauty. His characters are real, and the atmosphere is electric, oppressive and virulent."--Durango Telegraph

"BRIGHTON is the f***king bomb! I loved it."--Stephen King

Book Description:

'Brighton is the f***ing bomb! I loved it!' Stephen King

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 006244297X
• ISBN 13: 9780062442970
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368