A 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 for the notorious “Great American Novel” in the new century. Now the “heir of John Steinbeck and Raymond Chandler” decided to play on the field of “The Godfather” and “Once Upon a Time in America” - and performed very confidently. So, meet Joe Coglin, who obeys the “law of the night.” Joe is 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 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... At the beginning of 2017, a film adaptation of the novel, directed by Ben Affleck, was released worldwide and in Russia; The film was produced by Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio, starring Ben Affleck, Brendan Gleeson.