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008 121227s2012 nyu g 000 1 eng d
020 _a0060004878 (hardcover)
020 _a9780060004873 (hardcover)
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100 1 _aLehane, Dennis
245 1 0 _aLive by night
_cDennis Lehane
250 _a1st ed
264 0 _aNew York
_bWilliam Morrow
_cد.ت
300 _a401 pages
_c24 سم
336 _aنص
337 _aبدون وسيط
338 _aكتاب
505 0 _aBoston, 1926-1929 -- Ybor, 1929-1933 -- All the violent children, 1933-1935
520 _aIn 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. 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
596 _a1
650 0 _aOrganized crime
_vFiction
650 0 _aProhibition
_vFiction
651 0 _aBoston (Mass.)
_xHistory
_y20th century
_vFiction
651 0 _aCuba
_xHistory
_y20th century
_vFiction
655 0 0 _aHistorical fiction
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