Boston, 1926. The wild decade of the '20s is at its peak. Alcohol flows, bullets whistle, and a young man begins to make his mark on the world.

Prohibition gave birth to an endless network of underground distilleries, illegal speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt police officers. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police director, has long turned his back on his strict and respectable upbringing and enjoys the spoils, thrills, and bad reputation of a man outside the law.
Joe embarks on a dizzying ascent in the scale of organized crime, taking him from the glamour of jazz-era Boston to the sensual tremor of Tampa's Latin Quarter and the hot streets of Cuba.

A sweeping tale of love and irresistible epic at the same time, "Live by Night" is a captivating story of perseverance and power, betrayal and redemption, bringing to life an era where sin was cause for celebration and corruption was a national virtue.