| Authors: |
Lehane, Dennis.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Cuba -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Prohibition -- Fiction.
Organized crime -- Fiction.
American Dream -- Fiction.
Mafia -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : William Morrow, c2012. |
| Description: |
401, [1] p. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780060004873 (hardcover) 0060004878 (hardcover) |
| Notes: |
Also available as a RENTAL BOOK. |
| Contents: |
Boston, 1926-1929 -- Ybor, 1929-1933 -- All the violent children, 1933-1935. |
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5 sterren (standaard der letteren)
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| Rating: |
5 out of 5: They loved it |
| Community reviews |
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Het oordeel van De Standaard by Tips Standaard der Letteren |
| De auteur: een van de grootste misdaadauteurs van deze tijd. Zijn romans 'Shutter Island' en 'Mystic River' werden verfilmd door Martin Scorsese en Clint Eastwood. Het boek: Joe Coughlin is de zoon van een flik die het als gangster wil maken tijdens de drooglegging. Ons oordeel: een sterke epische misdaadroman die het genre moeiteloos overstijgt. (*****) (DSL 09/11/2012) |
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| Summary: |
In 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. |