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The Friends of Eddie Coyle is Higgins’s first novel. Eddie ‘Fingers’ Coyle got his nickname when he sold a gun that was traced; the Mafia put his hand in a drawer and kicked it shut. Now, back in business, he has a problem. He is due to be sentenced for a burglary that went seriously wrong, and he urgently needs someone in a place of power to do him a favour. As a supplier of guns, he has access to a lot of information, but when the bank robbery gang he is supplying are caught, ironically through none of Eddie’s doing, the Mafia decide that it is time something was done about him.
It’s like you’re in a movie, and the other guy’s in the movie with you, but he knows you’re both in a movie, and what comes next. And you don’t.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
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Quotations from the works of George V. Higgins (and page references) are from the following editions: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (London: Robinson Publishing, 1986); The Digger’s Game (London: Pan, 1974); Cogan’s Trade (London: Coronet, 1975).
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Daldry, G. (1990). The Voices of George V. Higgins. In: Bell, I.A., Daldry, G. (eds) Watching the Detectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10591-5_3
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