Thursday, December 31, 2015

"IT'S TOO LATE TO BE GOOD." --LUCKY LUCIANO

Dennis Lehane, The Given Day: A Novel (New York: William Morrow, 2008) ("'What are you supposed to do,' Danny said,'when everything you built your life on turns out to be a fucking lie?'" Id. at 468. "[Luther] stood and crossed broken glass and stepped through the window. He never looked back at Old Byron. He worked his way through the feverish white folk and the screams and the rain and the storm of the hive and he knew he was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie." Id. at 624.).

Dennis Lehane, Live By Night: A Novel (New York: William Morrow, 2012).

Dennis Lehane, World Gone By: A Novel (New York: William Morrow, 2015).