Cogan's Trade
of George V. Higgins
Description
Cogan's Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the New Yorker as the "best" from "the Balzac of the Boston underworld." Crackling dialogue, mordant humor, and unremitting tension drive the suspenseful stakes of the game higher in Boston's precarious underworld of small-time mobsters, crooked lawyers, and political gofers as George V. Higgins, the writer who boiled crime fiction harder, tracks Jackie Cogan's career in a gangland version of law and order. For Cogan is an enforcer; and when the Mob's rules get broken, he gets hired to ply his tradeâmurder. In the gritty, tough-talking pages of Higgins's 1974 national best-seller, Cogan is called in when a high-stake card game under the protection of the Mob is heisted. Expertly, with a ruthless businessman's efficiency, a shrewd sense of other people's weaknesses, and a style as cold as his stare, Cogan moves with reliable precision to restore the status quo as ill-conceived capers and double-dealing shenanigans erupt into high-voltage violence. "Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched."âJonathan Yardley, Washington Post
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224 pages
- Publisher Carroll & Graf
- Publication Date January 30th 2003
- First Publication 11/06/74
- Language English
- ISBN 9780786711086
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Boston, Massachusetts (United States)']
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