Long Time Gone: A Novel

Danny Cassidy couldnt remember if hed killed the cop. So begins one mans journey through his fifty-year-old history and conscience in Long Time Gone Denis Hamills gripping novel set in the back streets and alleyways of Brooklyn U.S.A. Its the year 2001 when Danny a divorced journalist returns to his old neighborhood for his fathers funeral. Hes spent all of his adult life trying to leave Brooklyn behind him -- along with all the drugs music and other psychedelic memories from the sixties spent on Hippie Hill. But now that the box of rain has been opened theres no turning back and Danny must face some painful truths about the woman he used to love -- and her father a police officer whom he may or may not have killed. By turns a thriller a detective story and a coming-of-age tale Long Time Gone is a bittersweet love letter to a lost New York that no reader will soon forget.