Joe Coughlin: Live by Night (Series #1) (Hardcover)

from nivramkoorb

Dennis Lehane is an excellent writer. Many of you would be familiar with the movies made from his books (Shutter Island, Gone Bay Gone, Mystic River, The Drop). This book is a continuation of the story he had in "The Given Day". The two books are historical fiction and differ from Lehane's usual ...

from gbelik

Joe Coughlin began his life as a petty criminal in Boston during Prohibition, but he rises to a position of importance in the organization. He becomes a crime boss in Tampa and then Cuba, transitioning to other activities as Prohibition ends. This book continues the family saga begun in The Given...

from justmelissa

Live by Night is the story of Joe Coughlin, Prohibition-era gangster who sees himself as an outlaw, as an essentially good man who lives by the rules of the night rather than those of the day. He faithful, loving and forgiving. He'd rather broker agreements with his competitors than kill them. Bu...

from ptom3

Dennis Lehane LIVE BY NIGHT William Morrow, 2012 402 pages Crime / Fiction I first discovered Dennis Lehane when I stumbled upon a paperback copy of Mystic River. I knew then I loved this writer. And although I then read several more titles, for some odd reason I drifted away from his books. No ...

from Laurenbdavis

Thoroughly enjoyed this, as I did MYSTIC RIVER and GONE, BABY, GONE. Lehane is a fine writer and this, is first foray into historical fiction, is terrific. I recently read J.R. Moehringer's SUTTON. Both are set in the 1920s and 30s (although SUTTON moves into the 1960s) and both are about gangste...