Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw.īut life on the dark side carries a heavy price.
Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world.
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.īoston, 1926.
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