Figgis's daughter later returns to Tampa and becomes a famous preacher.
Joe blackmails Figgis with pornographic photographs of the man's beautiful daughter Loretta in a drug-addled state, whom Figgis had believed was working in Los Angeles, California, as an actress. The local chief of the Klan is related to Figgis, the Tampa police chief. While building his empire, Joe fights against the Ku Klux Klan. Graciela convinces Joe to mastermind the robbery of a weapons cache from an American warship to aid Fulgencio Batista's overthrow of Cuban strongman Gerardo Machado.
Still grieving for Emma, he encounters a fiery Cuban expatriate and revolutionary, Graciela Corrales, upon arrival in Tampa and they become an intensely devoted couple. Joe builds a highly successful business with his henchman, Dion. Upon release, Pescatore sends Joe to Tampa, Florida, to solidify the family's rum-running operation. The stress of these dealings gives Thomas a fatal heart attack. While Joe and his police captain father, Thomas Coughlin, had a complicated relationship, Thomas agrees to do Pescatore's bidding to keep Joe safe in prison. Joe comes under the protection of Italian mobster Maso Pescatore while in prison. On the night of his arrest, the car Emma is traveling in crashes into a river and she is presumed dead. They begin an affair.Ĭoughlin is later sent to Charlestown Penitentiary after a bank robbery goes awry.
Emma Gould, a server in the room and White's mistress, catches Joe's attention. Unbeknownst to them, the speakeasy belonged to Albert White, their boss's biggest rival. Joe and two friends knock off a gambling room located behind a speakeasy. When the novel begins, Joe is in the employ of one of Boston's most powerful mobsters, Tim Hickey. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, defies his proper upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Ybor City, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. By 1926, Prohibition in the United States gives rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops.
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