Coronado

<p><strong>Now available with a contemporary look a must-have collection of riveting short stories from the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Mystic River</em> and <em>Shutter Island</em>.</strong></p><p><strong>Locations are vivid and crisp characters are memorable and most importantly the story lines dig into you and leave their mark. <em>--Boston Herald</em></strong></p><p>When it comes to contemporary crime fiction there's no territory quite as dangerous and unpredictable as that of <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Dennis Lehane. These five short stories and a play are Lehane at his visceral best.</p><p>In Running Out of Dog a vet returning from Vietnam is asked to redirect the violent skills he learned overseas to deal with his hometown's rampant population of strays. ICU follows a hunted man who finds refuge in the oddest place imaginable. Surprises await a gang of Texas high-school football jocks who lay siege to a luxury home in the suburbs in Gone Down to Corpus. And in Mushrooms a simple theft triggers a series of murders that forces a disillusioned young girl to consider her next move. This collection also includes Until Gwen and its stage adaptation <em>Coronado</em> which expands on the trenchant tale of a morally bankrupt conman father his ill-fated son and the woman they have in common. </p><p> In Lehane's capable hands each story faces unflinchingly the darkest depths of the human experience--sin and redemption loss and longing flesh and blood--delivering a knockout punch that'll have readers reeling.</p>