Live By Night Av Dennis Lehane

<p>Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever.<br><br>That meeting is the beginning of Joe''s journey to becoming one of the nation''s most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, double-crossing, drama and pain. And it is a journey into the soul of prohibition-era America...<br><br><b>A powerful, deeply moving novel, <i>Live By Night</i> is a tour-de-force by Dennis Lehane, writer on <i>The Wire</i> and author of modern classics such as <i>Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone </i>and <i>The Given Day</i>.</b></p>