For the first time in Russian - a new panoramic and lyrical canvas by the modern classic Dennis Lehane, author of the bestsellers "Mystic River" and "Shutter Island", as well as the epic "The Day Will Come" - the first application in the new century for the notorious "Great American Novel". Now, the "heir to John Steinbeck and Raymond Chandler" has decided to play in the field of "The Godfather" and "Once Upon a Time in America" - and performed very confidently. So, meet Joe Coughlin - the son of Boston police captain Thomas Coughlin and the younger brother of former patrolman Danny Coughlin, already known to the reader from the novel “The Day Will Come.” Joe took a different path and became one of those who can say about himself: “Our home is night, and we dance so wildly that the grass does not have time to grow under our feet.” Over the course of a decade, he will go from a lone rebel, for whom the law is not written, to the head of the largest bootlegging operation in the region, to the right hand of the leader of a gangster syndicate. But for all the ups and downs of his fate, one driving force is responsible - love...