Cogan's Trade (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
 “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