World Gone By

Late spring, 1943. Tampa. The American mob is in its heyday. Former crime boss Joe Coughlin now works as a consigliere to the infamous Bartolo Crime Family. A decade has passed since he lost his wife; Prohibition is dead, and Joe has made a home for himself and his son in Ybor City. Navigating his way through the ruthless, rapidly expanding mob world, Joe is instrumental in their growing relationship with Fulgencio Batista, who rules a corrupt Cuba with an iron fist. But a rumor surfaces that someone wants Joe dead. And he has only days to figure out who is after him or he will die. Racing against time and fate, Joe hurtles through a violent yet intoxicating world on the brink of either total collapse or epic triumph, a world on the cusp of reinvention and rebirth—where the old codes, the old sins, and the old dreams may soon be swept away once and for all.