George V. Higgins

George V. Higgins' seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in prison—unless he sells out one of his big-fish clients to the DA. But which of the many hoods, gunmen, and executioners whom he...