Live by Night - Joe Coughlin Book 1

Zusatztext "LIVE BY NIGHT is Crime Noir 101! as taught by the best of its current practitioners. . . . A sentence-by-sentence pleasure. You are in the hands of an expert. And you'll know it." Informationen zum Autor Dennis Lehane is the author of thirteen novels—including the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island ; and The Given Day —as well as Coronado , a collection of short stories and a play. He grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in California with his family. Klappentext Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out of make his mark on the world. Joe Coughlin, the son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his proper upbringing. Now in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from Jazz Age Boston to Tampa's Latin Quarter to the streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femme fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. A compelling saga of love and revenge, it is a spellbinding tour de force of betrayal and redemption that brings to life a bygone era when sin was cause for celebration and vice was a national virtue. Zusammenfassung From  New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane comes this epic! unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck! Elle Fanning! Zoe Saldana! and Sienna Miller. Meticulously researched and artfully told! Live by Night is the riveting story of one man’s rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast’s most successful rum runner! and it proves again that the accolades New York Times bestseller Lehane consistently receives are well deserved. He is indeed! “a master” ( Philadelphia Inquirer ) whose “true literary forefathers include John Steinbeck as well as Raymond Chandler” ( Baltimore Sun ). And! “Boy! does he know how to write” (Elmore Leonard). ...

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Lehane
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2012
• EAN: 9780062201393
• ISBN: 978-0-06-220139-3
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Harperluxe Large Print; Joe Coughlin Series; Joe Coughlin Series; Joe Coughlin; Harperluxe Large Print
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Historical romance, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Fiction: general and literary, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION: Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II