In addition to all that, the book beautifully evokes the entire era of early Thirties Prohibition America Readers' Digest This is a book that should put name right up there where it belongs, right up there alongside Doctorow and Dreiser Scotland on Sunday This is noir with added value: Lehane is terrific on family ties and at conveying the buzz of a city powered by immigrant labour of often dubious legality Guardian History is merely a backdrop in a story that seeks just to be exciting, sexy and atmospheric. The prose crackles with Chandleresque jokes, the narrative never flags and there's even a genuinely heart-stopping love story. I guarantee that all you'll be able to do is keep on turning the pages. His latest, about a Boston criminal, doesn't disappoint on either count. So beautifully written and so sharp in its details and atmosphere that it's no wonder Lehane's books attract filmmakers with such ease Irish Voice Lehane's thrillers mix viscerally violent excitement with a thorough airing of ethical dilemmas Daily Telegraph Lehane is one of the great contemporary American crime writers Daily Mail Dennis Lehane's speciality is the fast-paced gangster thriller that's also a deeply felt novel. ' Dennis Lehane] deserves to be included among the most interesting and accomplished American novelists of any genre or category.'-Washington Post Book World 'A standout writer.'-Los Angeles Times Book Review

And, 'Boy, does he know how to write' (Elmore Leonard). He is indeed, 'a master' (Philadelphia Inquirer) whose 'true literary forefathers include John Steinbeck as well as Raymond Chandler' (Baltimore Sun). Meticulously researched and artfully told, Live by Night is the riveting story of one man's rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast's most successful rum runner, and it proves again that the accolades New York Times bestseller Lehane consistently receives are well deserved. movie starring Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana, and Sienna Miller. From New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane comes this epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties-now a Warner Bros.

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