A beautiful fresco on America of Prohibition, with its traffic, its corruption, its gangsters and their organizations, which had already nothing to envy to those of the drug and its cartels will install later . Following learning and the development of Joe Coughlin, whose Irish roots and a police commissioner father however not particularly predestined to embrace at this time of life outside-the-law, Dennis Lehane stands with talent we know too complex and fascinating portrait of a man who wants to live as seems good and denied the rules imposed by society, a man in search of freedom, adventure and wealth, but also and above looking for love. And it is through this dazzling character Joe Coughlin that Lehane manages to free itself from a simple gangster novel to offer its readers a thriller as ambitious as successful. With narration of exemplary fluidity, it runs perfectly controlled narrative, visual and even surprisingly powerful film - perhaps too much, some would say. Indeed, there is not a single scene in the night They live that one does not imagine easily transcribed on the screen. Just as there is not a single chapter of this excellent thriller which one does not delight ...
