Description: Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of The Given Day and Live by Night, returns with a psychologically and morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must confront the cost of his criminal past and present.
Ten years have passed since Joe Coughlin’s enemies killed his wife and destroyed his empire, and much has changed. Prohibition is dead, the world is at war again, and Joe’s son, Tomás, is growing up. Now, the former crime kingpin works as a consigliore to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, his wife’s homeland.
A master who moves in and out of the black, white, and Cuban underworlds, Joe effortlessly mixes with Tampa’s social elite, U.S. Naval intelligence, the Lansky-Luciano mob, and the mob-financed government of Fulgencio Batista. He has everything—money, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity.
But success cannot protect him from the dark truth of his past—and ultimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full.
This was fast paced and the mystery of who would want Joe Coughlin dead made for quite a page turner.
My only complaint of this book how Lehane had Joe seeing ghosts. It was just odd to me and took away from everything else. I mean, in the sense of the book I get it and I get where the book was going, but it wasn't doing it for me.
I loved the different gangsters and the stories of things that had happened. I loved how people would say or do something and it would make you wonder if they were the one plotting to kill Joe.
This is the third in a series of books about Joe Coughlin, but honestly I hadn't read either and I didn't think it was necessary to read this one. I know some people complained about how some threads to the plot were just there and how many different people were involved but only one instance did it stand out to me when he ended up at at house and knew everything about the guy in what seemed in the timeline of the book like a day after knowing about him and not having mentioned anything about having someone follow him but then tells the guy that's how he knows things, did it really stand out to me. For the most part, it's a quick thriller not meant to make you think too much and it's good.
I definitely recommend it if you like thriller fast paced books!
Have you read any books by Dennis Lehane? Watched any of the movies based off his books? Do you like books or movies about the mafia?
I've only read Mystic River and only seen Mystic River. LOOOOVED the book, hated the movie. I have a few others of his that are on my shelves that I need to read. I love books/movies about the mafia.
I received this book from TLC Book Tours, all thoughts and opinions are my own!
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