The Summer of 1974 is unusually warm and dry in Boston. Mary Pat Fennessey has lived her whole life in the housing projects of South Boston, “Southie”, the Irish-American enclave that stands proudly apart. One night her teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a Black teenager is found struck by a subway train in mysterious circumstances. The two events would seem to have nothing in common. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins asking questions that bother the neighborhood power barons – Marty Barker and his gang at “The Fields” bar, men who don’t take kindly to being bothered. Set against the long. hot summer Boston tried to desegregate its schools, UNTITLED NOVEL #11 is at once a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of mafia power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a novel that only Dennis Lehane could have written.