Understated and perfectly paced....What makes The Drop so good is not just the pacing, which is just about right, but the mood.... There's also the very stylish writing.--Philadelphia Inquirer Lehane is a master of the sort of deadpan-nor pioneered by the late Elmore Leonard It s a style full of dark situation humor, sudden mayhem and quirky regional grammar. --Wall Street Journal" This book is as authentically grounded in place as his earlier works and more pleasurable than any tie-in novelization has a right to be. And The Drop benefits from bracing blasts of Lehane-an humor. --Boston Globe" Understated and perfectly paced .What makes The Drop so good is not just the pacing, which is just about right, but the mood . There s also the very stylish writing.--Philadelphia Inquirer" A tight, gritty little tale of working-class crime in Boston .Lehane breathes pulsing life into his story through the small details of his stoop-shouldered characters lives, investing their every mannerism with unspoken emotion.