![]() ![]() Joe comes under the protection of Italian mobster Maso Pescatore while in prison. ![]() ![]() On the night of his arrest, the car Emma is traveling in crashes into a river and she is presumed dead. They begin an affair.Ĭoughlin is later sent to Charlestown Penitentiary after a bank robbery goes awry. Emma Gould, a server in the room and White's mistress, catches Joe's attention. Unbeknownst to them, the speakeasy belonged to Albert White, their boss's biggest rival. Joe and two friends knock off a gambling room located behind a speakeasy. When the novel begins, Joe is in the employ of one of Boston's most powerful mobsters, Tim Hickey. 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 characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. Plot summary īy 1926, Prohibition in the United States gives rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. ![]() It won a 2013 Edgar Award for novel of the year. Live by Night is a crime novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, published in 2012. ![]()
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