Live by Night: A Novel

“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.