Bob Saginowski

Bob Saginowski is one of the major characters in the novel “The Drop” by Dennis Lehane. Appearing to be somewhere in his late 30s or perhaps early 40s, Bob is the cousin of Marvin Stipler and Dottie Stipler, and is the main bartender at Cousin Marv’s Bar. Bob is a lifelong resident of Boston, in the neighborhood in which his cousins also grew up. Bob appears to be incredibly kind and with a good heart, and he is incredibly lonely. His parents are long dead, and he has managed to save tens of thousands of dollars over the years, doing kind things with it sometimes, such as covering Millie’s tab at the bar. He attends church at Saint Dominic’s, despises how everyone in the world puts their business online for everyone else to see, and is haunted by a past sin for which he...