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Plot summary. By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, defies his proper upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Ybor City, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, where he encounters a dangerous cast of ...
- Dennis Lehane
- 2012
Book Summary. 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. Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and ...
Live by Night, published in 2012, is the tenth novel by Dennis Lehane, several of whose books have been made into popular films. Set in Massachusetts, Florida, and Cuba, the novel traces the criminal career of Joe Coughlin, from his youth as a vandal and petty thief through his rise to power in the mafia.
Oct 3, 2012 · Oct. 3, 2012. “Live by Night” is Crime Noir 101, as taught by the best of its current practitioners. “Some years later, on a tugboat in the Gulf of Mexico, Joe Coughlin’s feet were placed ...
Live by Night begins with Joe Coughlin in a tub of cement surrounded by armed men on a boat heading out to sea. How does this opening foreshadow the story that unfolds? Joe, the youngest son of Thomas Coughlin, a high-ranking member of the Boston Police Department, was born into a socially respected and accomplished family.
Oct 19, 2012 · The epic sweep of Dennis Lehane’s new crime novel, LIVE BY NIGHT (Morrow/HarperCollins, $27.99), is something of an illusion, since the period covered in this Prohibition-era gangster tale ...
Live by Night (Joe Coughlin Novel, 2) Dennis Lehane, 2012 HarperCollins 416 pp. ISBN-13: 9780060004873 Summary Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and ...
