![]() In response to that demand, organized crime is enjoying a golden age. ![]() With the Volstead Act in effect, liquor is illegal across the United States, but demand for it is up. ![]() ( Live by Night is a sequel to that book but stands powerfully on its own.) As this novel opens, he's a young man of 20 and well on his way in the career guaranteed to most disappoint and enrage his old man: He's a soldier in the Boston organization of crime boss Tim Hickey, moving up from boyhood exploits like newsstand arson-for-hire (back in the day when cities had competing newspapers) to robbery, overseeing Hickey's illegal casino and learning the bootlegging trade. Joe was just a boy at the end of The Given Day. Joe Coughlin is the youngest of three sons of Thomas Coughlin, a rising power in the Boston Police Department and a glad-handing, hypocritical smoothy who has rocketed up from his Irish immigrant roots to a tony townhouse. Live by Night combines the crime and historical genres, picking up its main character from the family at the center of The Given Day. ![]()
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