At South Street train station, the detectives find the right locker and obtain a bag. They discover Jenna’s locker key in her car and retrace her life through the city, attempting to find whatever it unlocks. Kenzie and Gennaro keep looking for the remaining photos. Later, while Curtis Moore is being treated at the hospital, someone breaks into his room and kills him, carving Jenna’s initials on his body. Previously peaceful, the gangs have recently erupted into a ruthless war. Roland is in the Raven Saints’ rival gang, the Avenging Angels. At Jenna’s funeral, Socia appears, as well as Roland, the couple’s son. Socia leads a local gang called the Raven Saints, and Curtis Moore is one of his closest confidants. Kenzie and Gennaro discover that Marion Socia was partnered with Jenna. Kenzie is interrogated but omits his knowledge of the photo.
Kenzie shoots and disarms Curtis, bringing him in for an interrogation. Before Jenna can furnish the location of several remaining photographs, Curtis Moore tracks and ambushes them, killing her. The photo depicts Senator Paulson semi-naked in a motel room with a black man, Marion Socia. The following day, Kenzie accompanies Jenna to her bank, where she withdraws a photograph from a safety deposit box. Kenzie and Gennaro decide not to turn Jenna in until they find what she has. Jenna claims to have no documents, but suggests she has something else. Before they turn her in to Mulkern, Kenzie digs a little further, suspecting that the politicians haven’t told them the whole story. It does not take long for Kenzie and Gennaro to locate Jenna. He discovers the man is a local gang member, Curtis Moore. Before they find any leads, Kenzie sees a suspicious man watching his apartment. Kenzie finds his partner, Angie Gennaro, and they begin an investigation. Both Angeline and the documents have vanished.
The politicians inform him that a member of the congressional cleaning staff, Jenna Angeline, has stolen several confidential files referring to a forthcoming bill to curb street gang violence. The novel begins as Patrick Kenzie meets with Senators Brian Paulson and Sterling Mulkern, and Representative Jim Vurnan. The novel explores how the public and private selves inevitably interact and overlap, influencing people’s endeavors to live good moral lives. At the same time, both detectives struggle with their personal lives: Gennaro with an abusive husband, and Kenzie with his own past moral mistakes.
The detectives inadvertently uncover a child abuse case and find themselves entangled in a complicated gang war. The first book in his Kenzie/Gennaro series, it follows private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, who are commissioned by a group of politicians to find a cache of missing documents. A Drink before the War is a 1994 crime novel by American author Dennis Lehane.
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