Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, double-crossing, drama and pain. And it is a journey into the soul of prohibition-era America...A powerful, deeply moving novel, Live By Night is a tour-de-force by Dennis Lehane, writer on The Wire and author of modern classics such as Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and The Given Day.

丹尼斯•勒翰（Dennis Lehane）

當今稀有的全纔型小說大師，歐美文壇公認“不按套路齣牌”的故事天纔。作品風格獨樹一幟，獲奬無數，全球總銷量突破1200萬冊，版權風行35個國傢和地區。

勒翰的小說不僅轟動瞭文壇，更徵服瞭影壇，在好萊塢一嚮炙手可熱。他的《禁閉島》 《神秘河》等5部作品都曾被奧斯卡金奬導演看中，改編的電影無一不是史上留名的經典。

《夜色人生》是他全方位超越以往作品的心血大作，在強烈的戲劇衝突之餘，呈現齣罕見的史詩色彩與文學深度，齣版當年便一舉奪得美國亞馬遜年度推理小說第1名、愛倫•坡奬年度小說第1名、《齣版人周刊》年度推理小說第1名等重量級奬項。