"A meticulously crafted portrait of our violent national
past."--Washington Post Book World
Now available with a contemporary look, New York Times bestselling
author Dennis Lehane's epic, unflinching tale of Prohibition, the
Roaring Twenties, and one man's rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf
Coast's most successful rum runner.
Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has
long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing, and
enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life
on the dark side carries a heavy price, and one fate seems most likely
for men like Joe: an early death. Until that day, he and his friends are
determined to live life to the hilt.
Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that
takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of
Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night
is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and
callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales,
Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival
and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and
a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spellbinding tour de force that
brings fully to life a bygone era when sin was cause for celebration and
vice was a national virtue.
