![]() ![]() ![]() Set in Boston during and after WWI, this engrossing epic brings alive a pivotal period in our cultural maturation through a pulsing narrative that exposes social turmoil, political chicanery and racial prejudice, and encompasses the Spanish flu pandemic, the Boston police strike of 1919 and red-baiting and anti-union violence.ĭanny Coughlin, son of police captain Thomas Coughlin, is a devoted young beat cop in Boston's teeming North End. ![]() ), Lehane combines 20th-century American history, a gripping story of a family torn by pride and the strictures of the Catholic Church, and the plot of a multifaceted thriller. In a splendid flowering of the talent previously demonstrated in his crime fiction ( Gone, Baby, Gone ![]()
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