# Live by Night

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- Book: [Live by Night](https://www.bookquiver.com/dennis-lehane/live-by-night) ([Live by Night.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dennis-lehane/live-by-night.md))
- Authors: [Dennis Lehane](https://www.bookquiver.com/dennis-lehane)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4912-369-1
- Published: 2013-06-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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. 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... A powerful, deeply moving novel, Live By Night is a tour-de-force by Dennis Lehane, writer on The Wire and author of modern classics such as Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and The Given Day.