![]() ![]() This was a time of intense, roiling trouble. ![]() That book showed ferocity and sweep as it focused on Boston in 1919, an excellent choice of year. Lehane approached “The Given Day” was thrilling. You’ve been through a lot by the time you finish it, including a few figurative choruses of “Danny Boy.” But it’s also suspenseful, devious, well-constructed and as filled with ethical questions as it is with gangsters. ![]() “World Gone By” is, of necessity, the most elegiac of the three. ![]() Instead of sequels, he wound up producing a very loosely linked trio, adding on “Live by Night” (2012) and now “World Gone By.” Each is written very differently: first, a research-filled epic then a lean, classic Edgar-winning specimen of 1930s crime noir and now a suspenseful but reflective accumulation of all the wisdom these books have offered. That’s not exactly how things worked out. When “The Given Day” arrived in 2008, Dennis Lehane described his 704-page magnum opus as the beginning of a possible trilogy. ![]()
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