Romance develops between Joe and Graciela.
To cement the new partnership with Esteban, Joe engineers the theft from a Naval ship of munitions that are then sent to the Cuban revolutionaries. Graciela is married to a man in a Cuban prison, who she thinks is a revolutionary but actually is a con man and is not even in jail, as Esteban tells Joe. Through Esteban, Joe meets Graciela Corrales, a beautiful Cuban who is bent on aiding a revolutionary effort in her home country. In Ybor City near Tampa, Joe enters a partnership with Esteban Suarez, a Cuban nightclub owner and supplier of illegal raw materials from Cuba for making rum. He does this, and starts building a criminal empire, even as he continues to mourn the loss of Emma. Joe's first task is to run Albert out of Tampa, where he now is operating. Maso is released from prison and arranges Joe's release, sending him to Florida to build up a rum-running business during Prohibition.
Joe goes to prison, where he meets mob boss Maso Pescatore, whose gang is at war with Albert's gang. Emma disappears, apparently killed by Albert. He falls into the hands of Albert, but is saved by his father, Thomas Coughlin, a prominent policeman. After Joe robs a bank with his buddies, Dion and Paolo Bartolo, Joe tries to escape from Boston with Emma, but she double-crosses him. She turns out to be Albert's moll, but Joe commences a dangerous affair with her. Joe is captivated by Emma Gould, a lovely young woman who is serving drinks at the game. The story opens in 1926 in South Boston, where Joe and two cronies hold up a poker game, only to discover that the players belong to the gang of a powerful boss named Albert White. Set in Massachusetts, Florida, and Cuba, the novel traces the criminal career of Joe Coughlin, from his youth as a vandal and petty thief through his rise to power in the mafia. Live by Night, published in 2012, is the tenth novel by Dennis Lehane, several of whose books have been made into popular films.
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