Overview:
Cogan's Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the New Yorker as the "best" from "the Balzac of the Boston underworld." Crackling dialogue, mordant humor, and unremitting tension drive the suspenseful stakes of the game higher in Boston's precarious underworld of small-time mobsters, crooked lawyers, and political gofers as George V. Higgins, the writer who boiled crime fiction harder, tracks Jackie Cogan's career in a gangland version of law and order. For Cogan is an enforcer; and when the Mob's rules get broken, he gets hired to ply his trade—murder. In the gritty, tough-talking pages of Higgins's 1974 national best-seller, Cogan is called in when a high-stake card game under the protection of the Mob is heisted. Expertly, with a ruthless businessman's efficiency, a shrewd sense of other people's weaknesses, and a style as cold as his stare, Cogan moves with reliable precision to restore the status quo as ill-conceived capers and double-dealing shenanigans erupt into high-voltage violence. "Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched."
“Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched.”
—The Washington Post
“A uniquely gifted writer … who does at least as well by the Hogarthian Boston he knows as Raymond Chandler once did for Southern California.”
—The New York Times
“Superb … Higgins is a complete novelist. His work will be read when the work of competing writers has been forgotten.”
—Chicago Daily News
“Brilliant … Higgins is a master stylist.”
—New York Post
“George V. Higgins’s mastery of the patois of the Boston criminal class is legendary.”
—San Jose Mercury News
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And Blessed Are The Ones Who Care For Their Fellow Men!
I didn't know this is a book. I just rented the DVD last Saturday. Have yet to watch it though.
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