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"Higgins deserves to stand in the company of the likes of Chandler and Hammett as one of the true innovators in crime fiction." --Scott Turow
"Higgins can plot a whole book like one long chase scene. He can write dialogue so authentic it spits." --Life "The Balzac of the Boston underworld. ... Higgins is almost uniquely blessed with a gift for voices, each of them ... as distinctive as a fingerprint."--The New Yorker "One of the great crime writers of the twentieth century." --Kansas City Star "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 NewsA 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” the problem. Moving expertly and ruthlessly among a variety of criminal hacks, hangers-on, and bigger-time crooks—a classic cast of misfits animated by Higgins’s hilarious, cracklingly authentic dialogue—Cogan gets to the root of the problem and, with five consecutive shots from a Smith & Wesson thirty-eight Police Special, restores order to his corner of the Boston underworld.
Combining his remarkable wit and a singular ability to show criminal life as it is lived, George V. Higgins builds an incredible story of crime to an unforgettable climax.
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Softcover. Condición: Good. 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? the problem. Moving expertly and ruthlessly among a variety of criminal hacks, hangers-on, and bigger-time crooks?a classic cast of misfits animated by Higgins?s hilarious, cracklingly authentic dialogue?Cogan gets to the root of the problem and, with five consecutive shots from a Smith & Wesson thirty-eight Police Special, restores order to his corner of the Boston underworld.Combining his remarkable wit and a singular ability to show criminal life as it is lived, George V. Higgins builds an incredible story of crime to an unforgettable climax. Nº de ref. del artículo: AMPLE030794722X
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