Killing Them Softly (Cogan's Trade Movie Tie-in Edition)

SOFTLY
    George V. Higgins was the author of more than twenty novels, including the bestsellers
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Rat on Fire
, and
The Digger’s Game
. He was a reporter for the
Providence Journal
and the Associated Press before obtaining a law degree from Boston College Law School in 1967. He was an Assistant Attorney General and then an Assistant United States Attorney in Boston from 1969 to 1973. He later taught Creative Writing at Boston University. He died in 1999.

A LSO BY G EORGE V. H IGGINS
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972)
The Digger’s Game (1973)
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