The True Detective, Gil Dulac, is a small town police investigator who sees his sleepy city of Portsmouth, NH, being infested with a sexual pathology that, in its breadth of depravity, is breaking out like a pandemic. It's no surprise to Dulac then, when a twelve-year-old boy turns up missing. Child abduction grips the city, along with Dulac's obsessive sense of justice. Now, as the clock winds down on a horrifying reality, Dulac must use his wits, his resolve and his deepest life experiences to recover the boy alive.In the spirit of Truman Capote's, In Cold Blood, Weesner takes the reader deep into the conflicting desires and motivations of a broken family, a sexually confused perpetrator, and an immensely complex investigating detective, to create a lightning-fast literary thriller that is both powerful and heartbreakingly realistic.Weesner's, unflinching insight and master storytelling combine to create a rare breed of novel: An absolute page-turner that rises to the level of great American literature.

In early 1960s Detroit, a teenage basketball star faces disillusionment in his quest for glory, in this "knockout" novel by the author of The Car Thief (The Boston Globe). Fifteen-year-old Dale Wheeler, the son of an unemployed, alcoholic autoworker, hopes to lead his team to the City League basketball championship. But his dream is shattered when he is cut to make way for the son of a big-money team sponsor. His life in a tailspin, Wheeler finds inspiration in Miss Furbish, the beautiful homeroom teacher whose well-meaning kindness gradually builds into a potentially dangerous passion. But at his lowest, he gets one final shot at his dream: a hardscrabble team of street-ballers that may have what it takes to win. "Full of a life so real you can reach out and touch it." —Scott Turow, #1 New York Times–bestselling author "An extraordinary writer." —Richard Yates,...

A lobster fisherman in Maine attempts to reconcile his rocky past in this "unforgettable novel" by the author of The Car Thief (Kirkus Reviews). Lobster fisherman Warren Hudon has made a life of almost absolute isolation on the rough waters of southern Maine. But when he is diagnosed with rapidly developing cancer, he finds himself driven to make peace with his long-estranged wife, Beatrice, and their adult daughter, Marian. Warren's search for reconciliation forces him to confront the failures and disappointments of his past: Beatrice's long-standing affair with a married senator; Marian's alliance with her mother in the acrimonious split; and the daily injustices leveled against the lobstermen of Maine. Consumed by his thoughts and growing rage, Warren, a man with nothing left to lose, must decide whether he is willing to forgive those who have wronged him, or take his revenge. "Sensitively and intelligently composed...

A young man leaves South Boston for the first Gulf War, in a novel that is "a very great achievement" (The Boston Globe). Growing up in Southie, Jimmy Murphy boxes after school, developing his toughness as he looks forward to enlisting in the army like his father. He navigates the racial politics of the streets, while feeling an intense pull toward a pretty African American classmate. When Murphy starts basic training at Fort Knox, he begins writing to his old English teacher, Herman Roth. Eventually, the letters come from Germany—and finally, from the front lines in the Middle East. As he struggles with rage, prejudice, and unfulfilled desire—fighting to become the top gunner of the elite 2nd Cavalry Tank Division—Murphy continues to write, getting his thoughts down on paper. Even as the situation in Iraq and Kuwait turns chaotic, his mission as a soldier gives him a sense of purpose and order. But his real...