Dennis Lehane writes crime thrillers including the successfully filmed Mystic River. His review of Nic Pizzolatto’s book Galveston appears in the New York Times.

… “Galveston” empathizes with its characters to a degree I’m hard pressed to recall in another recent novel. The addicted thief, the decaying mob boss, the sun-scorched Nancy who believes that the United Nations plans to invade Texas and that Louisiana would be a fine place were it not for all of the Catholics, even the blowhard redneck who ultimately beats his wife to death (“How helpless he’d seemed, and how you could tell that helplessness had made him cruel”) — all are brought to life in the fullest blush of their frightened, addled humanity.

Galveston is available new in hard cover for $25.00.