Live by night

Call Number

  • MYSTERY LEHA (CEN, OSH)

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : William Morrow, c2012.

Physical Description

401, [1] p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston Police captain, defies his proper upbringing and his father's strict law-and-order orthodoxy. Graduating from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the riches, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns battle for control, no one can be trusted. For men like Joe one fate seems more likely than all others, an early death.

Contents

  • Boston, 1926-1929
  • Ybor, 1929-1933
  • All the violent children, 1933-1935.