by Dennis Lehane · Little, Brown · tapa dura · ISBN 9781408703151
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«Live by Night» is the novel by Dennis Lehane, published by Little, Brown in hardcover (403 pages, in English).
Set in 1926, during Prohibition, it follows Joe Coughlin, son of a Boston police captain, who enters organized crime and rises from the Boston underworld to Tampa and Cuba, in a world of gangsters, alcohol smuggling, betrayals and violence. The story combines love, revenge and redemption with the historical atmosphere of the 1920s.
Second novel in Dennis Lehane's Coughlin family series.
Dennis Lehane is an American author and screenwriter. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War (1994). Four of his novels have been adapted into films of the same name: Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010), and Gone Baby Gone (2007) and Live by Night (2016), both directed by Ben Affleck. His short story "Animal Rescue" was also adapted into the 2014 film The Drop, noted for being the final film role for actor James Gandolfini.
