Coronado

A collection of riveting short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island. Though best known for his hugely successful novels, Dennis Lehane is also a master of short fiction. In this collection, Lehane has compiled the best of his previously published short stories, as well as a story unique to this collection. In "Running Out of Dog" a vet returning from Vietnam is asked to redirect the violent skills he learned overseas to deal with his hometown''s rampant population of strays. "Gone Down to Corpus" features Texas high-school football jocks with an unnameable rage that can only be satisfied through destruction. The final story in the collection, "Until Gwen" tells the disturbing tale of a son