{"product_id":"world-gone-by-a-novel-isbn-9780062298607","title":"World Gone By: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eDennis Lehane, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Given Day\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLive by Night\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis Lehane vividly recreates the rise of the mob during a world at war, from a masterfully choreographed Ash Wednesday gun battle in the streets of Ybor City to a chilling, heartbreaking climax in a Cuban sugar cane field. Told with verve and skill,  \u003cem\u003eWorld Gone By\u003c\/em\u003e is a superb work of historical fiction from one of “the most interesting and accomplished American novelists” (\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e) writing today.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Lehane writes convincingly tensely . . . powerfully.”—\u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate spring, 1943. The world is at war but the American mob is in its heyday. Former crime boss Joe Coughlin now works as a consigliere to the infamous Bartolo Crime Family, effortlessly handling their interests in Tampa, Boston, and Cuba. In the decade since he lost his wife in a cascade of bullets, Joe has made a home for himself and his son, and once again forged everything out of nothing: money, power, a relationship with a beautiful woman, and a privileged place in Tampa’s shadowy underworld.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut a rumor surfaces that someone wants Joe dead. And he has only days to figure out who, or he will die. And then there’s the ghost—a young boy who appears on the fringes of Joe’s vision and seems to be trying to tell him something. Racing against time and fate, Joe hurtles through a violent yet intoxicating world on the brink of total collapse or epic triumph, a world on the cusp of reinvention and rebirth—where the old codes, the old sins, and the old dreams may soon be swept away once and for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The novel’s plot is as complex as its morality.”—\u003cem\u003eDaily News\u003c\/em\u003e (New York)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lehane has Elmore Leonard’s ear for dialogue.”—\u003cem\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Lehane, who has developed into a novelist of seemingly effortless power and command, is missing nothing in his delivery. Few writers can equal his ability to balance dark and light, casual and intense, here and then. More than a sequel, \u003cem\u003eWorld Gone By \u003c\/em\u003eseems lit by its predecessor and the events of the past as if through a prism—or maybe a black light. In the process, Joe Coughlin’s story becomes more epic still.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lehane writes convincingly, tensely, tersely, powerfully, about the fatal tensions of daily Mob life without romanticizing it, without judging it. He steers the plot and its characters toward inevitable consequences. Everyone here is bloodied—splattered with either their own or someone else’s blood...This gangster novel is violent, graphic and guiltily compelling.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lehane has Elmore Leonard’s ear for dialogue and a masterly touch with description... \u003cem\u003eWorld Gone By \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a frisson like you get from the best gangster sagas from \u003cem\u003eThe Godfather \u003c\/em\u003eto \u003cem\u003eThe Sopranos \u003c\/em\u003e— entry into a world of complex characters who are operating within their highly risky world. And it serves a plot that drives relentlessly forward without ever feeling forced.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lehane is shaping a tragedy in \u003cem\u003eWorld Gone By\u003c\/em\u003e, along classic lines set in a seamy underbelly. 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