Trail of the Wolves (Lehane)

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Track of the Wolves (original title Mystic River ) is a novel by the US American Dennis Lehane from 2001. It is about three childhood friends whose lives are overshadowed by a crime and who, as adults, deal with another act of violence To see the past confronted. The novel is named after the Mystic River in Massachusetts , USA. Clint Eastwood's film version of the novel won two Academy Awards in 2004. At the same time as the film was released, the work appeared in several editions in German-speaking countries under the title Mystic River .

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The location is East Buckingham, a fictional, rough working-class neighborhood in Boston. The prehistory covers the childhood of Jimmy Marcus, Dave Boyle and Sean Devine. While the boys play, two men pretending to be law enforcement officers lure Dave into a car. He is abused for days, then he can escape. After that, nothing is the same as before: Dave is shielded from his mother and his guilty conscience keeps his friends away.

25 years later, all three families have started and still live in the same area, but their paths rarely cross. Jimmy, the former underworld boss, runs a shop and watches over the private life of his eldest daughter Katie. Sean became a police officer, his wife ran away pregnant and kept calling him without answering. Heavily scarred since the crime, Dave plays hockey with his son and has married Jimmy's cousin.

One night Dave comes home covered in blood and tells his wife that he has killed a robber. The next day, Katie's body is found. Sean takes the case, and all the evidence points to Dave as the perpetrator. When Dave's wife also thinks he is Katie's murderer, things can no longer be stopped.

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The novel was made into a film by Clint Eastwood in 2003.

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