New York Times best-selling author Dennis Lehane has achieved runaway success with critically acclaimed novels such as Mystic River, Shutter Island, and Gone, Baby, Gone, all of which have been adapted into major motion pictures. Set during Prohibition, Lehane's highly anticipated take on the Roaring 20s features Joe Coughlin, a police captain's son who enters into the intensely violent world of organized crime.

In 1931, nine naughty children who received coal in their stockings travel from Pittsburgh to the North Pole to plead their case to Santa Claus.