Cogan's Trade is a top-notch 'hard boiled' crime novel. Crackling dialogue, mordant humour, and unremitting tension drive the suspenseful stakes of the game higher in Boston's precarious underworld of small-time mobsters, crooked lawyers, and political gofers.
The film Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt, based on this crime masterpiece is due to be released in cinemas in the UK September 2012. See a trailer for it below.
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Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins
Cogan's Trade features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, General Fiction, Recommendations
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Cogan's Trade was written by George V. Higgins and published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
£6.35. Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply..
