LIVE BY NIGHT - Little Brown

Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A small-time 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 of The Wire and author of modern classics such as 'shutter Island?, ?Gone, Baby, Gone? and 'the Given Day?.