When both Clint Eastwood (Mystic River) and Martin Scorsese (Ashecliff) make movies out of your books and Ben Affleck also weighs in with Gone Baby Gone and you write several episodes of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, that’s pretty good evidence that you know how to tell a story.
Dennis Lehane’s gritty books are even better than the screenplays would lead you to believe. Tough guy characters who do the right thing, even when their reasoning is flawed, is his specialty. His latest, The Given Day shows Lehane has moved past the crime genre all the way to historical epic territory.
When both Clint Eastwood (Mystic River
