Results for "Higgins, George V."

National Book Award Finalist
With a new introduction by Dennis Lehane

Elmore Leonard called The Friends of Eddie Coyle “the best crime novel ever written—makes The Maltese Falcon read like Nancy Drew." Time magazine lauded its author as "America's best crime novelist."

Picador celebrates the 40th...

A riveting George V. Higgins masterpiece about Jerry Doherty and his trip to Vegas that puts him eighteen grand in the hole.
 
Jerry "Digger" Doherty is an ex-con and proprietor of a workingman's Boston bar, who supplements his income with the occasional "odd job," like stealing live checks or picking...

A riveting, blistering hot novel about the shady side of the law and the business side of the Boston underworld by the one and only George V. Higgins.
 
Jerry Fein is a small-time lawyer, occasional booking agent, and full-time slumlord. But he’s nobody’s fool. So when the tenants of his dilapidated...

A hard-hitting, tour-de force tale of the mob and the man who makes sure their rules are the only rules, by the American master of crime George V. Higgins.
 
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer for the New England mob. When a high-stakes card game is heisted by unknown hoodlums, Cogan is called in to “handle...

In Boston in the late 1960s, the activities of the mafia and of the Black Panthers are two of the police force’s main concerns. Eddie Coyle, a minor gangster with good connections, faces a three-year sentence for contraband, and his only way of avoiding jail time is offering up a kingpin to the...

Jackie Cogan is a hitman for the New England mob who has been enlisted to find out who pulled the latest heist at a criminal poker ring and “take care of them.” A ruthless professional with the efficacy of a businessman and a sharp sense for recognizing other people’s weaknesses, Cogan doesn’t stop...

Coogan's Trade is the basis for the upcoming movie Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt.

Cogan's Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the The New Yorker as the "best" from "the Balzac of the Boston underworld." Crackling dialogue, mordant humor, and unremitting tension drive the suspenseful...

Jerry Fein is a small-time lawyer and booking agent, who also happens to own an apartment building in Boston. When his tenants refuse to pay rent in protest to poor conditions and an infestation of rats, Jerry knows just the way to evict them and calls on his friend Leo, who is a professional...

The classic novel from "America's best crime novelist" ("Time"), with a new introduction by Dennis Lehane
George V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he...

Jerry Kennedy has been aptly described by his ex-wife as "the classiest sleazy criminal lawyer in Boston." Now, Jerry must defend the man that no one else will: Billy Ryan. The longtime commissioner of public works has cut one shady deal too many. Even Jerry harbors no illusions about the man's...