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  <about><![CDATA[George Vincent Higgins was a United States author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and college professor. He is best known for his bestselling crime novels. ]]></about>
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    <![CDATA[The Friends of Eddie Coyle]]>
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    <![CDATA[George V. Higgins's first novel is like a blast of Atlantic air; the Boston prosecutor virtually reinvents the language of the crime novel with his unique ability to breathe life into the dialogue of the smalltime hoodlum and hustler. Trying to pull off one final score, career crook Eddie Coyle finds himself squeezed out of shape by the people above and below him. The explosive conclusion is inevitable yet fascinating.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Kennedy for the Defense: A Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[Attempting to spend a quiet family vacation at the shore at   Green Harbor, Jerry Kennedy, the classiest sleazy-criminal lawyer in   Boston, finds his peace disrupted by a midnight intruder with murder on   his mind. Reprint.]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Cogan's Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the New Yorker as the &#8220;best&#8221; from &#8220;the Balzac of the Boston underworld.&#8221; Crackling dialogue, mordant humor, and unremitting tension drive the suspenseful stakes of the game higher in Boston&#8217;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&#8217;s career in a gangland version of law and order. For Cogan is an enforcer; and when the Mob&#8217;s rules get broken, he gets hired to ply his trade&#8212;murder. In the gritty, tough-talking pages of Higgins&#8217;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&#8217;s efficiency, a shrewd sense of other people&#8217;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. &#8220;Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched.&#8221;&#8212;Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2002</published>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Bob Brennan is an old-school Boston cop who knows a lot about Short Joey Mossi, a mob hit man who's neatly taken care of at least eleven competitors. In fact, as Harry Dell'Appa, a hotshot detective recalled from banishment in the sticks, discovers, Brennan not only knows a lot, but he talks a lot, too-about who Joey's killed, and about how and why. So why won't Brennan bring Joey in? That's what Harry has to find out.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Mandeville Talent: A Crime Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[Joe Corey, a promising young Manhattan attorney, gets drawn into an unsolved murder that happened 23 years ago. It's against his better judgment, but this is no ordinary crime. The victim is his wife's grandfather, Jim Mandeville, once president of a small-town New England bank.  <p>What was it that compelled Mandeville to go to the bank at 5:30 that cold December morning to be killed by his own 12-gauge shotgun? It's up to Corey and his flamboyant sidekick, Baldo Lanucci, retired intelligence agent, to reheat cold leads -- and when they do, things turn hotter than anyone ever expected!  <p>&quot;Flawless. Never a false word, phrase or rhythm.&quot; (The New Republic)</p></p>]]>
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