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Mystic River, Dennis Lehane

 The Book  In 1975 Boston, three boys who were friends got into a fight in the middle of the street in an upper working class neighborhood of one of the boys, Sean Devine. When a supposed cop car comes to break up the fight, the other two boys, from the lower working class neighborhood next door, give different answers to the cop about where they live. Jimmy lies and says he lives next door to Sean while Dave tells the truth. The "cop" bundles Dave up into the car and drives off. A few moments later, Sean's dad asks what happened to Dave, and quickly discovering the holes in the "cop's" story figures out Dave has been abducted. He is not expected to be found alive. But four days later, he returns home. And everybody says he's a broken boy.  This miraculous turn of events does not save the friend group. In fact, it shatters it. Sean keeps going up in the world, goes to college and lands a job as a detective with the State Troopers. Jimmy becom

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