· The Friends of Eddie Coyle may not have been the first crime novel set in Boston, but it’s the first one that matters. George V. Higgins couldn’t have known he was launching an entirely new subgenre when his fifteenth attempt at writing a debut novel was accepted for publication in , but Coyle ’s DNA is imprinted on everything that followed, from Robert B. Parker’s Spenser to Dennis Author: Scott Von Doviak. The Friends of Eddie Coyle Quotes Showing of 3. “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”. ― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle. tags: humor, life, Cited by: 5. · Like Higgins’ novel—which is almost experimental in its preferred use of two-character dialogues instead of conventional narrative— The Friends of Eddie Coyle atmospherically presents the workaday tug of war between crooks and cops.
George V. Higgins, with a new introduction by Dennis Lehane. George V. Higgins () was a lawyer, journalist, teacher, and the author of 29 books, including Bomber's Law, Trust, and Kennedy for the Defense. His seminal crime novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle was the basis for the Robert Mitchum film of the same name. George V. Higgins. The classic novel from "America's best crime novelist" ("Time"), with a new introduction by Elmore Leonard Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop named Foley is on to Eddie and he's leaning on him to finger Scalisi, a gang leader with a lot to hide. And then there's Dillon-a full-time bartender and part-time contract killer--pretending. THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE by Higgins, George V. Seller John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB Published Condition Ink stamp to front free end paper, fading to cloth (green) edges, upper corners bumped, a very good copy in a very good dust jac Edition First edition Item Price $.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, published in , is the debut novel of George V. Higgins, then an Assistant United States Attorney in Boston. The novel is a realistic depiction of the Irish-American underworld in Boston. Its central character is the title character Eddie Coyle, a small-time criminal and informant. The Friends of Eddie Coyle may not have been the first crime novel set in Boston, but it’s the first one that matters. George V. Higgins couldn’t have known he was launching an entirely new subgenre when his fifteenth attempt at writing a debut novel was accepted for publication in , but Coyle ’s DNA is imprinted on everything that followed, from Robert B. Parker’s Spenser to Dennis Lehane’s Kenzie and Gennaro to the glut of Boston-based crime movies starring marble-mouthed. The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a story about cops and robbers. Eddie Coyle is a small-time hood in Boston who's known as Eddie Fingers because he "got his hand busted up after they put Billy Wallace away for a long time on a gun that he bought from somebody.".
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