7 Books by George V. Higgins
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Overview: George Vincent Higgins was a United States author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and college professor. He is best known for his bestselling crime novels.
Genre: Fiction / Mystery / Thriller / Suspense
Killing Them Softly
Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Brad Pitt
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer for the 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 underworld.
The Pariot Game
Fast-talking, hard-living politicians, priests, smugglers and thieves play the game of the Boston streets in George V. Higgins’ The Patriot Game.
Federal agent Pete Riordan is as tough as they come; he’s six-foot-four with a bad knee and a mean temper, but his commitment to his job is beyond exemplary. When he is called upon to find the man delivering arms to the I.R.A. he takes to with gusto. Little did he know it’d be such a guessing game; bar proprietor Digger Doherty is rumored to have leads, and convicted killer Mikey-Magro serving time in Walpole certainly knows more than he lets on. But no one is coming forward and time is running out, and why is Mikey-Magro being released from jail prematurely anyway?
At End of Day
Every state police officer in Boston knows that Arthur McKeach and Nick Cistaro are the most prolific and ruthless practitioners of extortion, fraud, theft, bribery, assault, and murder in the area. What none of them know is how to stop these Michelangelos of crime, who for thirty years have eluded jail-and even arrest. Their secret is at the heart of George Higgins’s most searing and shocking dissection of the criminal life yet. At End of Day lays bare not only the inner workings of a criminal empire, but also reveals the corruption at the heart of American law enforcement. Few writers have mapped the intricate highways and byways of crime with equal vividness and elegance, and with At End of Day, Higgins has created a cast of characters to match his unique gifts. McKeach and Cistaro stand shoulder-to-shoulder with any of Eddie Coyle’s friends, and their story solidifies George Higgins’s place in the forefront of novelists who write about crime in America.
Trust
A juicy, rollicking novel about some fetching lowlife, including a former point-shaving basketball player, ready to go for that little extra. Corruption, deceit, and dishonor propel a gang of rascals as devilishly beguiling as any seen before.
Bomber’s Law
By the time Bomber Lawrence took mandatory retirement as commanding officer of the Detective Division at state headquarters in Boston, the surveillance files indicated that Short Joey Mossi had regulated at least eleven people out of competition with the mob. A year later Brian Dennison, Bomber’s successor, had impatiently concluded that Mossi’s tracker, Detective Sergeant Brennan, was unlikely to nail Joey before Brennan himself reached retirement age. Dennison’s move is to recall to headquarters a banished detective to watch Brennan watch Short Joey. It’s only after Harry Dell’Appa returns from the tamer precincts of western Massachusetts that we come to appreciate the primacy of Bomber’s Law.
The Digger’s Game[/b]
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 up hot goods. His brother’s a priest, his wife’s a nag, and he has a deadly appetite for martinis and gambling. On a trip to Vegas, the Digger finds himself in the sights of a loan shark known as “the Greek.” Luckily–if you call it luck–the Digger has been let in on a little job that can turn his gambling debt into a profit, if only he can pull it off without getting himself killed.
The Rat on Fire[/b]
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 arsonist. However, the task proves to be more challenging than anticipated: Leo and his co-criminal Jimmy will have to manage to bribe the inspector to turn the other way. "La rata en llamas "is one of Higgins best thriller novels, and is a clear example of his unique ability to realistically capture criminal lie.
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