Coughlin Trilogy · Book 2
Live by Night
- Published
- 2 October 2012
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN-13
- 9780062270931
- Type
- novel
About this book
Live by Night followed four years later, on October 2, 2012, tracing Joe Coughlin's rise from small-time hood to Prohibition-era rum runner across 432 pages, and went on to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel.
Its place in Coughlin Trilogy
Live by Night is book 2 in the Coughlin Trilogy series. It follows The Given Day. It is followed by World Gone By. See the full Coughlin Trilogy reading order.
The Coughlin Trilogy is Dennis Lehane's sweeping departure from contemporary Boston crime fiction into twentieth-century American history, following the Coughlin family -- Irish-American, Boston police -- and in particular Danny and later Joe Coughlin across three decades of Prohibition, organised crime, and social upheaval. The Given Day (2008) opens with the 1919 Boston police strike and the influenza pandemic, weaving Babe Ruth and real historical figures into a story about labour, race, and the limits of…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062270931