Crime And Vengeance With Boston's Own Dennis Lehane

Best-selling author Dennis Lehane takes blood, crime and vengeance to Tampa in his newest novel, “World Gone By.”

Novelist Dennis Lehane sits in the On Point Studio on Friday, March 13, 2015. (Jesse Costa / WBUR)

Dennis Lehane does gritty, literary crime fiction with a bloody elegance that just keeps coming.  In ‘A Drink Before the War,” “Gone, Baby, Gone,” “Moonlight Mile,” “ Mystic River,” and many more, his crime novels have built a big following way beyond his Boston hometown.  Hollywood snaps up his books.  He’s written for “The Wire” and “Boardwalk Empire,” too.  His latest book goes World War II-era Florida, to old Tampa and Cuba and gangster days.  It’s blood and betrayal again.  This hour On Point:  Dennis Lehane on America now and his new novel “World Gone By.”