![]() ![]() Faced with a loaded gun, she has the moxie to ask, “And what will the gentleman be having with his robbery this morning?” Joe learns, shortly thereafter, that she is Mr. ![]() While holding up the gangsters, Joe is smitten by the unflappable Emma, a sassy cocktail waitress. White owns the aforementioned speakeasy Joe has come to rob, and it is full of White’s associates. Joe is a teenager making a living doing jobs for a mob boss who is preparing to go to war with another mob boss named Albert White. ![]() ![]() Bound and gagged, Joe thinks back to where it all started: a robbery in a backroom of a Boston speakeasy in 1926, where he first encountered Emma Gould. Heavily armed mobsters on the deck of a tugboat heading out into the Gulf of Mexico have just placed his feet in a tub of wet cement. And his readers are willing captives, craving their tours of Lehane’s imagination.Īs Lehane’s latest novel, Live by Night, opens, his protagonist Joe Coughlin is faced with a different sort of immersion. Like some of the memorable bad-guy characters in his novels, Dennis Lehane has the ability to snatch his readers out of their daily lives and whisk them away to the underworld to blighted, seedy neighborhoods where colorful, lusty, dangerous characters are engaged in their own dark passion plays. ![]()
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