Gone Baby Gone Novel Based on a True Story
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| Author | Dennis Lehane |
|---|---|
| Land | United states of america |
| Language | English |
| Series | Kenzie and Gennaro |
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Published | 1998 (William Morrow and Company) |
| Pages | 256 (showtime edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0688153328 |
| OCLC | 38593676 |
| LC Class | PS3562.E426 G66 1998 |
| Preceded by | Sacred |
| Followed by | Prayers for Rain |
Gone, Babe, Gone is a 1998 detective novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, his fourth in his series featuring Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. In 2007 a film adaptation of the same proper noun was released, directed by Ben Affleck.
Plot [edit]
Boston-based lovers and private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro are hired by a adult female to look into the case of her niece, Amanda McCready, whose disappearance has become an important local news story. They take the case despite the seeming reluctance of the girl's uncle, Lionel. During the investigation they quickly come up to the conclusion that Amanda's mother, Helene, who has been prominently featured in the news stories about the case, is a degenerate and neglectful parent. At the time of Amanda'south disappearance, Helene had left her alone for several hours while she partied at a local dive bar. In another incident, revealed later, Helene had in one case left her daughter unsupervised on the embankment for several hours, resulting in the daughter getting a terrible sunburn. While Helene has been pleading with the public for her daughter'south return, in private she often seems more concerned near her own life and the possible do good the publicity might have on it. In possibly the most irresponsible act of parenting, Patrick and Angie discover that Helene had taken Amanda along while she and her so fellow Skinny Ray stole two hundred thousand dollars from men working for the imprisoned drug dealer Cheese.
Patrick and Angie begin working on the case with law officers Remy Broussard and Nick "Poole" Raftopoulous, members of the Boston Law Section's CAC (Crimes Against Children) Partitioning. In investigating the missing money from Helene and Ray'south drug deal, Patrick, Angie, Broussard, and Poole notice the money forth with two dead bodies, acquaintances of Helene's from when the coin was originally stolen. The police receive an credible ransom demand calling for a meetup at the Quincy Quarries to substitution the money for the daughter. Under encompass of darkness and with the expanse surrounded by police, Angie, Patrick, Poole, and Remy arrive at the quarry. Earlier they tin run across the kidnappers, a confused gun boxing breaks out, resulting in the decease of a couple of gangsters working for Cheese and the disappearance of the ransom coin. Angie finds Amanda's favorite doll, which had been taken along with her, in the water of the quarry, and they conclude that the little girl was likely thrown in and died.
Months later, Patrick crosses paths with Helene and sees her to be emotionally wrought and reeling from Amanda'south death. Patrick later learns that Remy had known Lionel, Helene's blood brother, before Amanda'southward disappearance. Questioning Lionel with the aid of Justice Department agent Ryerson, Patrick and Angie find that the whole kidnapping had been orchestrated at Lionel's behest in order to get Amanda away from Helene'due south neglectful care. Remy and another policeman, Pasquale, bearded as burglars, stage a holdup of the bar where Patrick, Angie, and Lionel are meeting. After information technology becomes clear to Patrick that the two are there to kill Lionel and end the investigation into Amanda, a gunfight ensues which ends with Pasquale expressionless, Lionel and Ryerson grievously wounded, and Remy fleeing on human foot. Patrick gives chase to Remy, finding that Angie had shot him in the barroom melee. After refusing medical help and thereby ensuring his imminent death (and avoiding imprisonment for his part in most of the crimes committed or unearthed during the novel), Remy confesses to Patrick that he is role of a small band of cops who have children from abusive and neglectful homes and identify them with caring competent parents. The first child had been his own son, who he had establish as an infant malnourished and abused in a crack house, the child's birth mother so uninterested in his welfare that she had never filed a missing persons written report afterward Remy took him. Remy had conspired with Lionel to have Amanda from Helene'south care to ensure her proper upbringing. To protect Amanda, he refuses to tell Patrick of her whereabouts before his own decease. Patrick later figures that Remy and Poole's captain, Doyle, had taken custody of Amanda. Patrick, Angie, and two allied Boston cops (Oscar and Devin, from previous books) go to the captain'due south forest home where they observe Amanda McCready, apparently happy and well cared for by Doyle and his married woman. Angie begs Patrick, Oscar, and Devin not to reveal Amanda's whereabouts, insisting that she's with a loving family unit at present. Angie and Patrick argue well-nigh the proper course with Patrick finally supporting the decision to telephone call the authorities to the house and reveal Lionel, Remy, and Doyle'southward scheme. Amanda is returned domicile. Remy's wife and illegally adopted child are never seen over again, gone, Patrick assumes, with the ii hundred thou dollars from the botched ransom exchange. Angie, disappointed, leaves Patrick. Patrick later stops by the McCready household to find Amanda listlessly watching Tv set as Helene gets ready to become out on a engagement and leave Amanda with a neighbor, a sign that, after everything, null has inverse.
Adaptations [edit]
- Gone Babe Gone (2007), motion picture directed past Ben Affleck
- Gone Baby Gone (2018), telefilm directed by Phillip Noyce
External links [edit]
- Gone, Infant, Gone at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone,_Baby,_Gone_(novel)
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