George V. Higgins was the author of more than twenty novels, including the bestsellers The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Cogan's Trade, The Rat on Fire, and The Digger's Game. He was a reporter for the Providence Journal and the Associated Press before obtaining a law degree from Boston College Law School in 1967. He was an assistant attorney general and then an assistant United States attorney in Boston from 1969 to 1973. He later taught Creative Writing at Boston University. He died in 1999.
“Higgins deserves to stand in the company of the likes of
Chandler and Hammett as one of the true innovators in crime
fiction.” —Scott Turow
"Higgins can plot a whole book like one long chase scene. He can
write dialogue so authentic it spits." —Life
"The Balzac of the Boston underworld. ... Higgins is almost
uniquely blessed with a gift for voices, each of them ... as
distinctive as a fingerprint."—The New Yorker
“One of the great crime writers of the twentieth century.” —Kansas
City Star
“Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that
is unmatched.” --The Washington Post
“A uniquely gifted writer . . . who does at least as well by the
Hogarthian Boston he knows as Raymond Chandler once did for
Southern California.” —The New York Times
"Superb. . . Higgins is a complete novelist. His work will be read
when the work of competing writers has been forgotten."—Chicago
Daily News
"Brilliant. . . Higgins is a master stylist."--New York Post
“George V. Higgins’s mastery of the patois of the Boston criminal
class is legendary.” —San Jose Mercury News
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