Summary
1970, Boston, and a daring attack on an armoured transport delivering money to a bank, catches Massachusetts law enforcement napping. While the police are still trying to figure out where this new and coldly efficient gang sprang from, more dazzling heists follow - each one meticulously planned and ruthlessly executed.
It soon becomes clear these are no ordinary criminals, but as one of the cops assigned to the case figures, ‘longhairs that got bored with protesting the war and b…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781409138181 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1409138186 |
| Author: | George V. Higgins |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 406g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 198mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
My favourite of the recent Higgins reissues
A tour de force * NEW YORK TIMES *
A hell of a story from a hell of a storyteller * DAILY MAIL *
My favourite of the recent Higgins reissues – Jake Kerridge
Higgins brings the generation gap into sharp relief in this pulsing thriller * CATHOLIC HERALD *
Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched * WASHINGTON POST *
Higgins brings the generation gap into sharp relief in this pulsing thriller * CATHOLIC HERALD *
My favourite of the recent Higgins reissues – Jake Kerridge * The Sunday Telegraph *
George V. Higgins
George V. Higgins was a lawyer in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office, in the Organized Crime section and the Criminal Division, and an Assistant United States Attorney, in Boston. He then founded his own private practice, defending Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy and Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. Described as ‘the Balzac of the Boston underworld’, he wrote more than twenty novels, including a number of lowlife masterpieces constructed almost entirely out of pitch-perfect dialogue. He died in 1999.
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