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No. of Pages=412. <p> This is the first complete book I have read in over a year. We saw the movie based on this book. The plot was a bit complicated, so I decided to read the book to really find out what happened. I was not disappointed. I like this writer. His other book (The Mystic River) was also turned into a successful movie directed by Clint Eastwood. Both books are based on the Italian/Irish ethnic sections of Boston and he describes the lives of people in that area with fine details. Here is a description of the book:</p> <DIV id=synopsistext><strong>Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her bed on a warm, Indian summer night. They meet her stoned-out, strangely apathetic mother, her loving aunt and uncle, the mother's dangerous drug-addled friends, and two cops who've found so many abused or dead children they may be too far over the edge to come back. Despite enormous public attention, rabid news coverage, and dogged police work, the investigation repeatedly hits a brick wall. Then a second child disappears....As the two detectives intensify their search, they encounter a media more interested in sensationalizing the abductions than solving them, a midnight ransom drop that explodes into a firefight, a city seething with secrets and rage, and a faceless power determined to keep the children lost forever.</strong></DIV> <p> </p>