'The best crime novel ever written' - Elmore Leonard
George V. Higgins was the author of more than twenty novels, including the bestsellers The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Cogan's Trade, The Rat on Fire, and The Digger's Game. He was a reporter for the Providence Journal and the Associated Press before obtaining a law degree from Boston College Law School in 1967. He was an assistant attorney general and then an assistant United States attorney in Boston from 1969 to 1973. He later taught Creative Writing at Boston University. He died in 1999.
The best crime novel ever written
*Elmore Leonard*
A portrait of life on the street as realistic as any ever
written
*Dennis Lehane*
Higgins deserves to stand in the company of Chandler and Hammett as
one of the true innovators in crime fiction
*Scott Turow*
Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that
is unmatched
*WASHINGTON POST*
If you haven't read George V. Higgins you can't call yourself a fan
of crime fiction
*Val McDermid*
No one ever did it better
*NEW YORK TIMES*
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