Darkness, Take My Hand

13 hrs. 7 min.

Language Russian

Author Dennis Lehane

Narrator Sergey Kirsanov

For the first time in Russian— a new panoramic and lyrical canvas by the contemporary classic Dennis Lehane, the author of bestsellers «Mystic River» and «Shutter Island,» as well as the epic «The Given Day»—the first statement of the «great American novel» for the new century. Now «the heir of John Steinbeck and Raymond Chandler» has decided to play on the field of «The Godfather» and «Once Upon a Time in America»—and he does it very confidently.

So meet Joe Coughlin—son of Boston police captain Thomas Coughlin and younger brother of former patrolman Danny Coughlin, already known to the reader from «The Given Day.» Joe takes a different path and becomes one of those who can say about themselves: «Our home is night, and we dance so wildly that grass doesn’t even have time to grow under our feet.» Over a decade, he will go from a lone rebel, for whom the law is meaningless, to the head of the region’s biggest bootlegging operation, to the right hand of the boss of a gangster syndicate. But through all the rises and falls of his fate, one driving force is always responsible—love…

1. Gone Baby Gone (narrated by Sergey Kirsanov) 2. Darkness, Take My Hand 3. World Gone By (narrated by Sergey Kirsanov)