On the fourth day after being abducted, Dave manages to escape and is returned to his home. Sean and Jimmy are instinctively wary of the strangers, but the vulnerable Dave gets into the car when the man tells him they’re going to take him home and tell his mother what he was doing. One man, wearing a gold badge on his belt, gets out of the car and begins reprimanding the boys, telling them he’s a cop. Sean, Jimmy, and Dave are roughhousing in the street near Sean’s house one afternoon when a big sedan with two men in it pulls up. The story opens in 1975, when the boys are 11 years old. The third boy, Dave Boyle – well, Dave just tags along wherever Jimmy goes, hoping to be accepted. Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus often spend Saturdays together because Sean’s father is Jimmy’s father’s supervisor at the Coleman Candy Plant. Dennis Lehane takes a break from Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro of Dorchester to tell the story of three boys from the fictional East Buckingham, a working-class district just west of downtown.
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