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" - and its sequel “Night is my home.” The writer, who was called "the heir of John Steinbeck and Raymond Chandler," decided to play in the field of "The Godfather" and "Once Upon a Time in America" - and performed very confidently. Joe Coughlin is 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 over the decade described in the novel “Night Is My Home”, he became from a lone rebel, for whom the law is not written, the head of the largest bootlegging operation in the region, the right hand of the leader of a gangster syndicate. Another ten years have passed, Prohibition has long been abolished, and World War II is raging overseas. Joe is raising his son alone and shuttling between Florida and Cuba, the homeland of his deceased wife. He feels at home in high society salons, among mafiosi, and surrounded by military intelligence officers. But nothing will protect him from the dark secret of his criminal past...