Dennis Lehane: Live by Night

My immense gratitude to:

Tom Bernardo, Mike Eigen, Mal Ellenburg, Michael Koryta, Gerry Lehane, Theresa Milewski, and Sterling Watson for the early reads and feedback.

The folks at the Henry B. Plant Museum and the Don Vicente De Ybor Inn in Tampa.

Dominic Amenta of the Regan Communications Group for answering my questions about the Hotel Statler in Boston.

And a particular thanks to Scott Deitche for giving me the Cigar City Mafia tour of Ybor City.

DENNIS LEHANE is the author of nine previous novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Gone, Baby, Gone ; Mystic River ; Shutter Island ; The Given Day ; and Moonlight Mile , as well as Coronado , a collection of short stories and a play. He and his wife, Angie, divide their time between Boston and the Gulf Coast of Florida.

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A Drink Before the War

Darkness, Take My Hand

Sacred

Gone, Baby, Gone

Prayers for Rain

Mystic River

Shutter Island

Coronado: Stories

The Given Day

Moonlight Mile

Cover design by Mary Schuck

Cover photograph by Frank van den Bergh/Getty Images

Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2012:

The story might sound a bit familiar: A cop’s son falls in with bad guys and becomes one. But in Lehane’s hands, the Prohibition-era tale of Joe Coughlin’s rise to criminal power is both fresh and nuanced, packed with guns, booze, and babes as it roars from Boston to Tampa to Cuba. As Coughlin crosses deeper into the dark side—among those who “live by night and dance fast”—he provokes the question that sustains this propulsive narrative: Can a man be a good mobster and a good person at the same time? Incredibly, Lehane, who becomes more masterful with each book, has us rooting for Coughlin even as he slowly becomes the kind of monster mobster he once reviled and rebelled against.

“Lehane’s novel carves its own unique place in the Prohibition landscape…. This is an utterly magnetic novel on every level, a re-imagining of the great themes of popular fiction—crime, family, passion, betrayal—set against an exquisitely rendered historical backdrop.”

“Masterful…. Lehane has created a mature, quintessentially American story that will appeal to readers of literary and crime fiction alike.”

This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

LIVE BY NIGHT. Copyright © 2012 by Dennis Lehane. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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ISBN 978-0-06-000487-3

EPub Edition © OCTOBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062200297

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