Lives By Night, Lehane - B

                                         Living by night is what outlaws and gangsters, men like Joe Coughlin, do.  The nights are filled with hookers, crooked cops, bouncers and bullies in prohibition-era Boston and Tampa Bay. Coughlin, though, is a decent guy living with a wonderful Cuban wife and someone with readily understandable, almost admirable, values.  He is fair, generous, loyal, honest ( in a mobster kind of way), a team player - just someone trying to get along by getting by.  Lehane is a great storyteller and he paints a vivid picture of the era.