The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Name: The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Author: George V. Higgins

by George V. Higgins

Noir of small-time criminal informant navigating Boston underworld

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George V. Higgins

George V. Higgins was a Boston prosecutor who wrote The Friends of Eddie Coyle, a masterpiece of criminal vernacular dialogue that reinvented the crime novel as a study in American speech. His ear for the language of criminals and politicians was extraordinary.

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