This book is incredibly confusing, straight from the get-go. The book starts with solely focusing on Riordan, then adds characters left and right, each with their own respective background. This makes keeping track of the characters next to impossible, and frankly, plain annoying.Another problem ...
"This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid."Don't trust cops. Don't trust crooked cops especially. In his defense Serpico wasn't released yet. Maybe he didn't know any better? Don't be a sap, Mariel! There's no excuse. Eddie Coyle, known to frenemies as Eddie Fingers, is too fucking stup...
SPOILERS BELOW:This is one of those books I was very impressed with in terms of ambition and craft, but ultimately unsatisfied with. I'll admit I went to the library with the intention of picking up "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" (his famous one) but got stuck with this. His style is very odd. I'd ...
By the time Bomber Lawrence took mandatory retirement as commanding officer of the Detective Division at state headquarters in Boston, the surveillance files indicated that Short Joey Mossi had regulated at least eleven people out of competition with the mob. A year later Brian Dennison, Bomber's...
Cogan's Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the New Yorker as the "best" from "the Balzac of the Boston underworld." Crackling dialogue, mordant humor, and unremitting tension drive the suspenseful stakes of the game higher in Boston's precarious underworld of small-time mobsters, crooked...
Higgins is great. He's written what amounts to a dozen scenes with primarily dialogue, and he gets character, plot, action, the whole thing. "Sweating like I did a mile and six furlongs". Higgins has great knowledge of the way things work in the world, first of the legal and other-than-legal busi...
Publicado en http://lecturaylocura.com/la-rata-en-...No es la primera vez que hablo de George V. Higgins; a propósito de la publicación de su segunda novela lo incluí en este artículo; entonces ensalzaba su capacidad para crear diálogos y caracterizar personajes mediante ellos. No es que haya cam...
Frankie said. He sat in Amato’s office. “You know who he picks to call, of course. Me. Only he don’t remember I moved, so he calls Sandy, and he got her up and she’s all pissed and she calls me and give me a whole ration of shit and then I got to call him and I hadda girl with me. And of course I...
The exercise yard and the cellblocks were concealed behind it, but six more guard towers were visible, concrete buildings with mansard roofs and plate-glass windows and balconies near the top. Riordan pulled the green Ford up to the main gate and opened the window. The guard in a gray uniform cam...
He finished a large salad, an eighteen-ounce sirloin steak, a baked potato with sour cream, and three draft beers before 6:15. His check came to $9.40. He put a ten-dollar bill on the table while his waitress was picking up an order in the kitchen, and left the restaurant before she returned. The...