“I think Mystic River is a perfect book. There's not a word or thought wasted. I met Dennis Lehane last October and he said it very nearly burned him out, tokk everything from him. He did follow it up with Shutter Island, and experiment with the "unreliable narrator". When we met he'd just finished the first draft of his next book which is a toatl departure form the mystery novels he usually writes. He read dome of it and it's som of the bravest writing I've heard.”
