George V Higgins

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429931981

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The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins Pdf

The classic novel from "America's best crime novelist" (Time), with a new introduction by Dennis Lehane George V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the pen--that is, unless he sells out one of his big-fish clients to the DA. But which of the many hoods, gunmen, and executioners whom he calls his friends should he send up the river? Told almost entirely in crackling dialogue by a vivid cast of lowlifes and detectives, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of the greatest crime novels ever written. “The best crime novel ever written--makes The Maltese Falcon read like Nancy Drew.” -- Elmore Leonard

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345804662

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Outlaws by George V. Higgins Pdf

Gripping and entertaining, George V. Higgins delivers a compelling and uncomfortably realistic account of the way society and the law really function. It’s been a decade since the turbulent 60s and policeman John Richards still has to deal with a handful of leftover student radicals who continue to terrorize the Boston streets. In an effort to convict them once and for all, he liaises with ambitious lawyer Terry Gleason. Matters culminate one crisp Sunday morning when the students decide to rob the Friary, a pub in downtown Boston well-established as a site of drug-trafficking. Seven civilians are left dead in what comes to be called the Friary massacre. The trial proves nightmarish and unpredictable, not unlike the decade it took Richards and Gleason to apprehend the culprits in the first place. In a heart-stopping rendition of cops and robbers, Outlaws proves that in the Boston demimonde nothing is as it seems.

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307947239

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Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins Pdf

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, and when the mob's rules get broken, Cogan is called in to take care of business. This time a high-stakes card game has been held up by an unknown gang of thugs. Calculating, ruthless, businesslike, and with a shrewd sense of other people's weaknesses, Cogan plies his trade, moving among a variety of hoods, hangers-on, and big-timers, tracking those responsible, and returning "law and order" to the lawless Boston underworld. Combining remarkable wit, crackling dialogue, 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.

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307947277

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The Digger's Game by George V. Higgins Pdf

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 and picking up hot goods. His brother’s a priest, his wife’s a nag, and he’s got a deadly appetite for martinis and gambling. But when the Digger looses eighteen grand in borrowed money on a trip to Vegas, he quickly finds himself in the sights of mob loneshark “the Greek,” who will have to make the Digger pay up one way or another. 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, as long as he can pull it off without getting killed.

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307947338

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Kennedy for the Defense by George V. Higgins Pdf

A masterwork of crime and black comedy, George V. Higgins is in his element as he spell-bindingly recounts lawyer Jerry Kennedy’s more fragrant cases. Keen to take some time off, Jerry Kennedy plans a short holiday en famille at Green Harbor, his eclectic clients don’t get the memo however. His drive-by clientele, the car thieves, pimps, drug dealers and boatyard mechanics are diverse in all respects but one, persistence. Matters come to a head when a midnight intruder breaks into Kennedy’s home, knife drawn and determination blaring in his eyes. In deciphering the imposter’s intentions, Jerry’s qualities of honesty, responsibility and downright hard work are seriously put to the test. Brimming with a bevy of bimbos, bent cops and bad actors, Kennedy for the Defense shows us the Boston crooks-and-cops world through an attorney’s eyes.

Author : Erwin H. Ford II
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476616353

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George V. Higgins by Erwin H. Ford II Pdf

Best known for his popular crime fiction, Boston novelist George V. Higgins (1939-1999) should stand among the top ranks of the American literary canon. In his 26 novels and dozens of short stories, Higgins chronicled the lives of Boston's Irish with his trademark hard-boiled dialog, exploring the criminal underworld, American democracy, Boston politics, personal redemption and New England life in the tradition of Hawthorne and Thoreau. This intimate biography explores his turbulent life and career, including his working-class Irish Catholic roots, his two stormy marriages, his ambivalence toward the city of his birth, his passion for the limelight, and his drinking, which disrupted his family life and led to his early death at age 59. Discussions of Higgins's individual works and excerpts from his correspondence, writings, and thoughts on literature complete this revealing portrait.

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307947253

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The Rat on Fire by George V. Higgins Pdf

A riveting, blistering novel about the shady side of the law and the business side of the Boston underworld by the one and only George V. Higgins. Jerry Fein is a small-time lawyer, occasional booking agent, and full-time slumlord. But he’s nobody’s fool. So when the tenants of his dilapidated buildings refuse to pay rent because of rats, Jerry knows just the man to help him—Leo Proctor, a professional arsonist, who can make a fire marshal look the other way for a little cash. But the heat is on over at the police station as well, and a couple of cops are suddenly feeling pressure from their superiors to produce tangible results, and something has got to give. Full of showboating politicians, hardnosed cops, and lawyers a little too familiar with both sides of the law, The Rat on Fire is another Higgins masterpiece and an unflinching portrait of the Boston crime world.

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345804679

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Bomber's Law by George V. Higgins Pdf

A winding tale of suspicion and intrigue, George V. Higgins skillfully recounts the story of elusive Short Joey Mossi. When detective sergeant Harry Dell’Appa went into enforced exile in the Berkshires to put an end to an ill-fated office romance, he didn’t expect to be called back to Boston so soon. But desperate times…so the saying goes, and head detective Brian Dennison is keen for Short Joey Mossi, a suspected mob exterminator, to be arrested once and for all. Dell’Appa is called in to assist detective Bob Brennan, an old rival of his, who despite knowing all there is to know about Mossi, has never apprehended him. The plot thickens and Dell’Appa learns time and time again of the primacy of Bomber’s Law: they always “do it for the money”. In Bomber’s Law, Higgins operates on a captivating policy of “partial disclosure”, leaving the reader to piece together the plot, morsel by morsel.

Author : Alex Krieger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674246454

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City on a Hill by Alex Krieger Pdf

A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America’s leading urban planners and scholars. The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland. As he traces this uniquely American story from the Pilgrims to the “smart city,” Krieger delivers a striking new history of our built environment. The Puritans were the first utopians, seeking a New Jerusalem in the New England villages that still stand as models of small-town life. In the Age of Revolution, Thomas Jefferson dreamed of citizen farmers tending plots laid out across the continent in a grid of enlightened rationality. As industrialization brought urbanization, reformers answered emerging slums with a zealous crusade of grand civic architecture and designed the vast urban parks vital to so many cities today. The twentieth century brought cycles of suburban dreaming and urban renewal—one generation’s utopia forming the next one’s nightmare—and experiments as diverse as Walt Disney’s EPCOT, hippie communes, and Las Vegas. Krieger’s compelling and richly illustrated narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by.

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786716665

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The Easiest Thing in the World by George V. Higgins Pdf

A collection of uncollected work by the master of crime fiction showcases Higgins's famous dialogue while also presenting his trademark humor and stories of revenge and corruption. Reprint.

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Orion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1409138178

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The Patriot Game by George V. Higgins Pdf

Federal Agent Pete Riordan has two problems, and both of them could end with murder. Convicted killer Mikey-mike Magro has never made a secret of the fact that if he ever gets out of jail, he's going to go after the man he thinks put him there, Jerry 'Digger' Doherty. And now it seems some very influential people are trying to get Magro pardoned and out on the street. Riordan figures Bishop Paul Doherty, an old friend who also happens to be the Digger's brother, might put him on the right track - and he might just be able to help him with his second problem too: word is that a man is over from the old country intending to buy arms for the IRA. No one knows his name, or even what he looks like, but Riordan needs to find him fast - or his two problems could come together like a lighted fuse and a stick of gelignite.

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCAL:B4950732

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A Year Or So with Edgar by George V. Higgins Pdf

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Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0137283040

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The Progress of the Seasons by George V. Higgins Pdf

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Henry Holt
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Authorship
ISBN : UOM:39015018298078

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On Writing by George V. Higgins Pdf

A former AP correspondent writes the guidebook for new writers.

Author : Peter Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015073661608

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Havoc in the Hub by Peter Wolfe Pdf

Havoc in the Hub brings to light the long-neglected work of George V. Higgins, revealing the wealth of intellectual, social, literary, and religious thought that underlies his 25 novels and numerous other works. HigginsOs writing, fed by equal parts wit and sorrow, touches our senses, emotions, and minds. Peter Wolfe makes a resounding contribution to the study of this writer. Wolfe places HigginsOs work in its geographical context and outlines the many sources from which Higgins drew during his highly productive career. The first in-depth examination of George V. Higgins, Havoc in the Hub will interest scholars, graduate students, and lovers of HigginsOs work alike.