Impatient to find one of my favorite authors, I rushed on this item at beautiful and promising title. Very impressed with "A Country on the threshold" (I actually made a rave review from Amazon), I expected especially as the story unfolded after the first game. The story thus follows in the footsteps of last Coughlin (Joseph said Joe), we left child lost in a big empty house of his brothers, between a mother psychologically collapsed and an overwhelming father and missing. The child grew, and chose his camp, it will be one of those who "live the night" without the laws. The bottom of the ladder through the prison, Joe Coughlin will climb all levels imposed on "liberated" before tu summits and large (Lucky Luciano in person). I do not unveil more intrigue, letting you discover this book to bill very classic, repeating the codes already worn threadbare by other authors or filmmakers: Prohibition, the beginnings of Cosa Nostra, the speakeasies and bootleggers, the beginnings of cabarets, Thomson submachine always accompanying two-tone shoes etc ... It's not that it's uninteresting (it's still the Lehanne), but it is no surprise any. The catchy phrase promotion Stephen King: "They live at night, this is Godfather for those who can think. "Let me thinker is this to say that the masterpiece of Mario Puzzo was written for morons? (It would be better to write good novels, this is not happened for a long time ...) "They live the night" is a very good novel, always very well written, forcefully perfectly realistic descriptions of the new century , wonderful atmosphere, a beautiful love story and a few surprises, but I really lamented the little depth of the main character and the lack of consistency of the "societal setting." Indeed, "A Country at dawn" had done so much to me like a slap by his ambition, his finesse, "breath" and social analysis of the time (racial aspect, labor, criminal, financial) as well as the number and wealth of characters I probably expecting too much of this new opus that seems a book without "passion" After this rather severe criticism, however, I confess to have taken great pleasure in read this novel so classic (in the American sense), and if a prisoner somewhere like that, because an average Lehanne still a good book. Happy reading.
