World Gone by

<p>Dennis Lehane the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>The Given Day</em> and <em>Live by Night</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Dennis 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 <em>World Gone By</em> is a superb work of historical fiction from one of the most interesting and accomplished American novelists (<em>Washington Post</em>) writing today.</p>