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* PutOnABusToHell: Connor, the middle Coughlin son who was blinded in ''The Given Day'', has gone from a promising young attorney to a janitor at a halfway house thanks to his disability.
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* DemotedToExtra: Danny Coughlin, Joe's older brother and the hero of ''Literature/TheGivenDay,'' only appears in one scene.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Lucky Luciano makes a brief appearance toward the end, and is arguably the novel's BiggerBad.
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* CrowningMomentofAwesome: Albert White's lack of concern about the approaching boats means that something different is due to arrive and save [[spoiler: Joe from his watery grave]]. Then a seaplane dips from the clouds and Dion blasts the bad guys literally to bits with the Chekov's gun.
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* {{Greed}}: Dion confronts a shocked and disillusioned Joe with this after [[spoiler: saving him from certain death during the MobWar with Maso, forcing him to acknowledge that the only possible explanation for Maso trying to take Tampa from the loyal and highly productive Joe was greed at a completely irrational level]].
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* AmbiguousSituation: We don't know whether Maso was telling the truth about [[spoiler: Lucky Luciano deciding that only Italians can hold the top positions, and that was why Joe had to be demoted. During Joe's meeting with him, Luciano says that he tried to talk Maso out of going against Joe, and expresses no problem with Joe being in charge. However, Joe decides to cover his bases by naming Dion as boss of Florida while he stays on as TheConsigliere, to which Luciano gives his blessing]].
* TheDreaded: Everybody is terrified of Lucky Luciano, and upon meeting him Joe's lifelong belief that the scariest people are mostly trying to cover up their own fear (which has proven itself true time and again with everyone else he's known) is completely undermined, and Joe swiftly concludes that Luciano doesn't even know what terror feels like.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Joe is Irish but his gang is almost entirely Italians and Cubans.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Joe is Irish but his gang is almost entirely Italians and Cubans. This earns him a lot of loyalty from a very willing workforce, but is used against him by the openly racist Albert White, and gets him in trouble with the Ku Klux Klan.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Various people on various sides of the law are disgusted by different things or have lines they refuse to cross. For Joe, the realisation that a soldier (who was otherwise shown to be courageous and patriotic) was going to hunt, rape and kill Graciela and didn't see anything wrong with it because of her race prompts him to kill in anger for the only time, and he absolutely refuses to act against the civilian Loretta Figgis even though it costs him a fortune and some respect from his more ruthless colleagues.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Various people on various sides of the law are disgusted by different things or have lines they refuse to cross. For Joe, the realisation that a soldier (who was otherwise shown to be courageous and patriotic) was going to hunt, rape and kill Graciela and didn't see anything wrong with it because of her race prompts him to kill in anger for the only time, and he absolutely refuses to act against the civilian Loretta Figgis even though it costs him a fortune and some respect from his more ruthless colleagues.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch Joe informs Maso that his son is dead and declares he never wanted him to his father, before ''shooting him through the throat.''
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* InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl
InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl: How Joes' enmity with Albert White started. Both of them admit to each other how stupid it is, but it doesn't solve the problem.
* InsistentTerminology: Joe is an ''outlaw,'' not agangster.gangster, though Joe admits to himself that it becomes a stupid pretense as the novel continues.
* IOwnThisTown: Joe claims Tampa is his town [[spoiler: and subsequently proves it beyond any doubt during his short and decisive war with Maso]].
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Joe [[spoiler: informs Maso that his son is dead and declares he never wanted him to be his father, before ''shooting him through the throat.'']]
* LikeASonToMe: Maso [[spoiler: tells Joe that he was the son Maso wishes he had. Joe's response is detailed in KickTheSonOfABitch above]].
* InsistentTerminology: Joe is an ''outlaw,'' not a
* IOwnThisTown: Joe claims Tampa is his town [[spoiler: and subsequently proves it beyond any doubt during his short and decisive war with Maso]].
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Joe [[spoiler: informs Maso that his son is dead and declares he never wanted him to be his father, before ''shooting him through the throat.'']]
* LikeASonToMe: Maso [[spoiler: tells Joe that he was the son Maso wishes he had. Joe's response is detailed in KickTheSonOfABitch above]].
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** Parental version with [[spoiler: Maso and his idiot son Digger; his attempt to put his own son in charge of Florida while everybody knows him to be totally incompetent leads him into a pointless war with Joe and many of his own gang switching sides, since Maso can no longer be trusted as leader after such a terrible decision]].
* MobWar: First between the Hickey and White organizations, then between White and the Pescatorefamily.family, and then [[spoiler: a very short, bordering on SingleStrokeBattle version between Pescatore and Joe]].
* MobWar: First between the Hickey and White organizations, then between White and the Pescatore
** Maso's idiot son Digger may take the cake, however, as all these other examples are at least reasonably competent in their fields and are simply outsmarted by Joe, while Digger is so utterly useless that [[spoiler: Maso's most loyal soldiers all join up with Joe simply because the alternative would be working under Digger]], while remaining totally oblivious of the fact. Joe notes this seems to happen a lot; he's met a fair number of sons of bigshot gangsters, and every single one of them has been "an embarrassment to the human race".
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* UngratefulBastard: Both Maso and Joe think this of each other when he comes to Tampa [[spoiler: to demote Joe and put his idiot son in charge; Maso thinks Joe should accept the demotion with a smile because everything he has comes because Maso let him run Florida, and Joe thinks Maso should show more appreciation for Joe quintupling his profits from Florida.]]
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* CrowningMomentofAwesome: Albert White's lack of concern about the approaching boats means that something different is due to arrive and save [[spoiler: Joe from his watery grave]]. Then a seaplane dips from the clouds and Dion blasts the bad guys literally to bits with the Chekov's gun.
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In 2015 it's sequel Literature/WorldGoneBy was published following Joe in Florida in the 1940s.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch Joe informs Maso that his son is dead and declares he never wanted him to his father, before ''shooting him through the throat.''
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* IJustWriteTheThing: Lehane has said that Joe Coughlin gaining main character status in ''Live by Night'' wasn't intentional so much as discovered by him near the end of writing ''The Given Day'':
-->''I'd been thinking about doing a gangster book my whole life, but I hadn't been thinking about the specifics of this one until, near the end of writing "The Given Day," I realized, "Oh, I've got my gangster! There he is: the kid, the younger son."''
-->''I'd been thinking about doing a gangster book my whole life, but I hadn't been thinking about the specifics of this one until, near the end of writing "The Given Day," I realized, "Oh, I've got my gangster! There he is: the kid, the younger son."''
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A 2012 [[TheRoaringTwenties Roaring Twenties]] PeriodPiece by Creator/DennisLehane. A spinoff of his 2008 novel ''Literature/TheGivenDay,'' it's the story of Joe Coughlin, a petty criminal who's the son of a prominent Boston cop; a robbery of local mob boss Albert White's card game leads to an affair with his moll, Emma Gould, until Joe is uncovered after a robbery goes afoul and sent to prison. In prison, he befriends Maso Pescatore, TheGodfather of Boston, and once Joe gets out, he's off to Florida to oversee Maso's operation there, where he falls in with Cuban revolutionaries, goes up against the Klan, and generally rises up the ladder of organized crime.
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A 2012 [[TheRoaringTwenties Roaring Twenties]] PeriodPiece by Creator/DennisLehane. A spinoff of his 2008 novel ''Literature/TheGivenDay,'' it's the story of Joe Coughlin, a petty criminal who's the son of a prominent Boston cop; a robbery of local mob boss Albert White's card game leads to an affair with his moll, Emma Gould, until Joe is uncovered after a robbery goes afoul and sent to prison. In prison, he befriends Maso Pescatore, TheGodfather TheDon of Boston, and once Joe gets out, he's off to Florida to oversee Maso's operation there, where he falls in with Cuban revolutionaries, goes up against the Klan, and generally rises up the ladder of organized crime.
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A [[Film/LiveByNight movie]] based on the book came out in 2016, directed by Creator/BenAffleck.
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* VillainBall: When Maso tries to [[spoiler: have Joe killed,]] he leaves Albert to do it; because of Joe's [[spoiler: picture of Emma, Joe is able to escape. If Maso had killed him himself, or had absolutely anyone else kill him, he would have succeeded.]]
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* VillainBall: When Maso tries to [[spoiler: have Joe killed,]] he leaves Albert to do it; because of Joe's [[spoiler: picture of Emma, Joe is able to escape. If Maso had killed him himself, or had absolutely anyone else kill him, he would have succeeded.]]]]
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A 2012 [[TheRoaringTwenties Roaring Twenties]] PeriodPiece by DennisLehane.Creator/DennisLehane. A spinoff of his 2008 novel ''Literature/TheGivenDay,'' it's the story of Joe Coughlin, a petty criminal who's the son of a prominent Boston cop; a robbery of local mob boss Albert White's card game leads to an affair with his moll, Emma Gould, until Joe is uncovered after a robbery goes afoul and sent to prison. In prison, he befriends Maso Pescatore, TheGodfather of Boston, and once Joe gets out, he's off to Florida to oversee Maso's operation there, where he falls in with Cuban revolutionaries, goes up against the Klan, and generally rises up the ladder of organized crime.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A somewhat {{Anvilicious}} example when Klansman R.D. Pruitt attributes the Depression to America having "a Communist for a president."
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* StepfordSuburbia: Joe's upbringing.
-->When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw; (b) he came from a magnificent house not a magnificent home.
-->When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw; (b) he came from a magnificent house not a magnificent home.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: [[spoiler: Dion]] betrays Joe because he knows his affair with Emma has made him a liability, and he feels responsible for his older, but dumber, brother. Toward the end of the book, he calls Joe his brother and professes feeling a similar responsibility for him.
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** TheHero: Joe
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** TheChick: Graciela
** TheSmartGuy: Esteban
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** TheLancer: Dion
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* BrokenBird: Loretta Figgis, a wholesome GirlNextDoor and aspiring actress who ends up [[spoiler: a heroin addict, recovers and has a HeelFaithTurn, then loses her faith after the death of her mother.]]
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Joe is Irish but his gang is almost entirely Italians and Cubans.
* FirstGirlWins: Averted with [[spoiler: Emma and Graciela, respectively.]]
* FirstGirlWins: Averted with [[spoiler: Emma and Graciela, respectively.]]
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Joe is Irish but his gang is almost entirely Italians and Cubans.
* FirstGirlWins: Averted with [[spoiler: Emma and Graciela, respectively.]]
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Joe is Irish but his gang is almost entirely Italians and Cubans.
* FirstGirlWins: Averted with [[spoiler: Emma and Graciela, respectively.]]HellholePrison: Charlestown Pen.
* FirstGirlWins: Averted with [[spoiler: Emma and Graciela, respectively.]]
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A 2012 [[TheRoaringTwenties Roaring Twenties]] [[PeriodPiece]] PeriodPiece by DennisLehane. A spinoff of his 2008 novel ''Literature/TheGivenDay,'' it's the story of Joe Coughlin, a petty criminal who's the son of a prominent Boston cop; a robbery of local mob boss Albert White's card game leads to an affair with his moll, Emma Gould, until Joe is uncovered after a robbery goes afoul and sent to prison. In prison, he befriends Maso Pescatore, TheGodfather of Boston, and once Joe gets out, he's off to Florida to oversee Maso's operation there, where he falls in with Cuba Cuban revolutionaries, goes up against the Klan, and generally rises up the ladder of organized crime.
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* WelcomeBackTraitor: [[spoiler: Dion Bartolo]] betrays Joe to Albert, because he thinks Joe's infatuation with Emma is going to get them killed. When he explains this to Joe, Joe forgives him.
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* WelcomeBackTraitor: [[spoiler: Dion Bartolo]] betrays Joe to Albert, because he thinks Joe's infatuation with Emma is going to get them killed. When he explains this to Joe, Joe forgives him. [[spoiler: Dion]] and Joe use this to their advantage later on by having [[spoiler: Dion]] pretend to betray him to Albert again.
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* GodBeforeDogma: The conclusion [[spoiler: Loretta Figgis]] privately comes to.
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* LoveMakesYouStupid: Joe with Emma.
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* WelcomeBackTraitor: [[spoiler: Dion Bartolo]] betrays Joe to Albert, because he thinks Joe's infatuation with Emma is going to get them killed. When he explains this to Joe, Joe forgives him.
* WouldNotShootACivilian: Joe refuses to have Loretta Figgis killed when her ActivistFundamentalistAntics sink his casino venture, both because it would make her a martyr and because he doesn't believe in killing threats to his business unless they're criminals as well.
* WouldNotShootACivilian: Joe refuses to have Loretta Figgis killed when her ActivistFundamentalistAntics sink his casino venture, both because it would make her a martyr and because he doesn't believe in killing threats to his business unless they're criminals as well.
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* ChekhovsGun: The picture that proves [[spoiler: Emma Gould is still alive]] ends up saving Joe's life.
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* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGun:
** The picture that proves [[spoiler: Emma Gould is still alive]] ends up saving Joe'slife.life.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: How Joe feels when Maso shows up in Tampa to tell him [[spoiler: non-Italians can't be bosses, so he's giving him a major demotion and replacing him with Maso's idiot son.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The picture that proves [[spoiler: Emma Gould is still alive]] ends up saving Joe's life.
* CruelMercy: After destroying Albert White's Tampa business, Joe has the chance to kill him and passes it up because he wants him to live in disgrace. [[spoiler: This turns out to be a mistake.]]
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* TimeSkip: Begins 7 years after ''Literature/TheGivenDay,'' which introduced the characters of Joe and Thomas Coughlin.
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* SmugSnake: Albert White, RD Pruitt and Gary L. Smith, the crooked distributor Joe runs out of town.
* TimeSkip: Begins 7 years after ''Literature/TheGivenDay,'' which introduced the characters of Joe and ThomasCoughlin.Coughlin.
* VillainBall: When Maso tries to [[spoiler: have Joe killed,]] he leaves Albert to do it; because of Joe's [[spoiler: picture of Emma, Joe is able to escape. If Maso had killed him himself, or had absolutely anyone else kill him, he would have succeeded.]]
* TimeSkip: Begins 7 years after ''Literature/TheGivenDay,'' which introduced the characters of Joe and Thomas
* VillainBall: When Maso tries to [[spoiler: have Joe killed,]] he leaves Albert to do it; because of Joe's [[spoiler: picture of Emma, Joe is able to escape. If Maso had killed him himself, or had absolutely anyone else kill him, he would have succeeded.]]
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* TheAce: Esteban Suarez, Joe's Tampa supplier. He's a lawyer, a restaurateur, a skilled photographer AND a champion dancer. Joe openly wonders what he doesn't do.
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* ActionGirl: Graciela.
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* BrokenPedestal: Joe and his father have been growing apart for years, but the discovery that his father was a [[spoiler: DirtyCop]] is (almost) the straw that broke the camel's back.
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* GenreShift: Twice. First it goes from an InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl story set in the streets of Boston, then a prison drama, then an OnlyInFlorida crime epic.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Lucky Luciano makes a brief appearance toward the end, and is arguably the novel's BiggerBad.
* InsistentTerminology: Joe is an ''outlaw,'' not a gangster.
* MobWar: First between the Hickey and White organizations, then between White and the Pescatore family.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Klansman RD Pruitt, obviously, but Albert and [[spoiler: Maso]] step up their use of racial slurs the nastier they get.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Klansman RD Pruitt, obviously, but Albert NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: Joe and [[spoiler: Maso]] step up their use Graciela, once they're established in Ybor City, are philanthropists and pillars of racial slurs the nastier they get.community.
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* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Joe is the son of a celebrated policeman.
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* TheOldConvict: Maso is this when Joe first meets him in prison.
* TimeSkip: Begins 7 years after ''Literature/TheGivenDay,'' which introduced the characters of Joe and Thomas Coughlin.
* TheOldConvict: Maso is this when Joe first meets him in prison.
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* BittersweetEnding: Joe has ridden out Prohibition, gone legitimate and taken out all of his enemies, but at the cost of [[spoiler: the love of his life.]]
* DemotedToExtra: Danny Coughlin, Joe's older brother and the hero of ''Literature/TheGivenDay,'' only appears in one scene.
* FirstGirlWins: Averted with [[spoiler: Emma and Graciela, respectively.]]
* InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Joe is mistakenly believed to have killed three cops, Thomas [[spoiler: has the Boston PD give him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to within an inch of his life.]] He regrets it almost immediately.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Klansman RD Pruitt, obviously, but Albert and [[spoiler: Maso]] step up their use of racial slurs the nastier they get.
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* BittersweetEnding: Joe has ridden out Prohibition, gone legitimate and taken out all of his enemies, but at the cost of [[spoiler: the love of his life.]]
* DemotedToExtra: Danny Coughlin, Joe's older brother and the hero of ''Literature/TheGivenDay,'' only appears in one scene.
* FirstGirlWins: Averted with [[spoiler: Emma and Graciela, respectively.]]
* InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Joe is mistakenly believed to have killed three cops, Thomas [[spoiler: has the Boston PD give him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to within an inch of his life.]] He regrets it almost immediately.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Klansman RD Pruitt, obviously, but Albert and [[spoiler: Maso]] step up their use of racial slurs the nastier they get.
