Cogan's Trade

Zusatztext  “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 Informationen zum Autor George V. Higgins Klappentext 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 for the New England 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 Boston underworld. Combining his remarkable wit 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. 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. “I got to give it to you,” he said, “you’re a great-looking couple of guys. Come in here about four hours late, you look like shit and you stink. The fuck, you looklike you just got out of jailor something.”   “His fault,” the first one said. “He was late. I stood around there and I waited for him.”   Both of them wore black boots with red suede inserts. The first one wore an army-green poncho, a frayed gray sweater and faded blue jeans. He had long hair, dirty-blond, and mutton-chop sideburns. The second one wore an army-green poncho, a gray sweatshirt and dirty white jeans. He had long black hair that reached his shoulders. He had the beginnings of a black beard.   “I hadda get my dogs in,” the second one said. “I got fourteen dogs, there. Takes me a while. I can’t, I can’t just go. off some place, leave them dogs out.”   “You’re all covered with hair, too,” Amato said. “You been backing them dogs up to you, I guess.”   “Comes from beating off, Squirrel,” the second one said. “I come out, I haven’t got your advantages, nice business waiting for me, all that. good shit. I got to hustle.”   “ ‘Johnny’ around here,” Amato said, “you can call me ‘Johnny’ here. Most of the help calls me ‘Mister,’ but you can call me ‘Johnny.’ That’ll be all right.”   “I’ll work on that, Squirrel, I really will,” the second one said. “You got to make allowances for me, you know? I, like I just got out of fuckin’ jail. My head’s all fucked up. I got to read just to society, is what I got to do.”   “You couldn’t’ve got somebody else,” Amato said to the first one. “This item looks l...

Product details

• Authors: George V Higgins, George V. Higgins
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2011
• EAN: 9780307947222
• ISBN: 978-0-307-94722-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 202 mm x 15 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense