“A meticulously crafted portrait of our violent national past.”—Washington Post Book WorldNowavailable with a contemporary look, New York Times bestselling authorDennis 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 successfulrum runner.Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominentBoston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and properupbringing, 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 likelyfor men like Joe: an early death. Until that day, he and his friends aredetermined to live life to the hilt.Joeembarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes himfrom the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's LatinQuarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Liveby Night is a riveting epiclayered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, toughrumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruelKlansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. Atonce a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is aspellbinding tour de force that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin wascause for celebration and vice was a national virtue.
“A meticulously crafted portrait of our violent national past.”—Washington Post Book WorldNowavailable with a contemporary look, New York Times bestselling authorDennis 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 successfulrum runner.Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominentBoston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and properupbringing, 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 likelyfor men like Joe: an early death. Until that day, he and his friends aredetermined to live life to the hilt.Joeembarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes himfrom the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's LatinQuarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Liveby Night is a riveting epiclayered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, toughrumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruelKlansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. Atonce a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is aspellbinding tour de force that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin wascause for celebration and vice was a national virtue.
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