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"e;Gut-wrenching force...A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive."e; - The New York Times Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Nightnow a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleckoffers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two familiesone black, one whiteswept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I.

A psychologically, 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 Coughlins enemies killed his wife and destroyed his empire, and much has changed. Prohibition is dead, the world is at war again, and Joes son, Toms, is growing up. Now, the former crime kingpin works as a consigliore to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, his wifes homeland.A master who moves in and out of the black, white, and Cuban underworlds, Joe effortlessly mixes with Tampas social elite, U.S. Naval intelligence, the Lansky-Luciano mob, and the mob-financed government of Fulgencio Batista. He has everythingmoney, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity.But success cannot protect him from the dark truth of his pastand ultimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full.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,World Gone By is a superb work of historical fiction from one of the most interesting and accomplished American novelists (Washington Post) writing today.