- Fiction in English, Crime, Fiction, Suspense fiction
"Jackie Cogan is an enforcer for the New England mob. When a high-stakes card game is heisted by unknown hoodlums, Cogan is called in to 'handle' the problem.
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Resolved, classical in form, cool and relentless.
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- George V. Higgins
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 216
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Carroll & Graf, Orion
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9781409137535
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“AMATO IN A GRAY SUIT with a muted red stripe, textured pink shirt with his initials on the left French cuff, a maroon and gold tie, sat at the kidney-shaped, walnut veneer desk and stared.”
American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, raconteur and college professor. He authored more than thirty books, including Bomber's Law, Trust, and Kennedy for the Defense, and is best known for his bestselling crime novels, including The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which established the Boston noir genre of gangster tales that spawned several popular films by followers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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