Name: The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Rating: 4.375 (8 reviews)
ISBN: 9781841192628

George V. Higgins

These are the friends of Eddie Coyle: Jackie Brown, the gun leader; Dillon, part-time contract killer; Jimmy Scalisi, gang leader. All the hoods, gunmen, drivers, thieves and executioners wheeling, dealing, and stealing in the world of Eddie Coyle, a small time punk with a big time problem.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Vincent 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 to be Eddie's friend. Wheeling, dealing, chasing, and stealing--that's Eddie, and he's got lots of friends.

Really well done crime novel. Book has good dialogue and pacing. 

Tom Koss

Really well done crime novel. Book has good dialogue and pacing. 

Boston trip prep book 1/?

The classic novel from "America's best crime novelist" (Time), with a new introduction by Dennis Lehane George V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the pen--that is, unless he sells out one of his big-fish clients to the DA. But which of the many hoods, gunmen, and executioners whom he calls his friends should he send up the river? Told almost entirely in crackling dialogue by a vivid cast of lowlifes and detectives, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of the greatest crime novels ever written.

A Novel

A. D. Knapp

Like clockwork, new guys come along, old guys disappear. The wages of crime, eventually, is betrayal and death.

rumbledethumps

I have been hearing about this book for years. It appears on just about every Greatest Crime Novels list I've seen, and I have heard many authors from many genres say how great it is. It did not disappoint.

It's not a big story. Just a bunch of mid-level hoods being pursued by mid-level cops. But the dialogue is outstanding. Most of the book is written in dialogue, and it's what makes it so great.

Dana Kraft

A fun read since it's almost all dialogue among bad guys.

Anthony Sabourin

RODNEY DANGERFIELD SHIT, MAN'S OUT HERE WRITING PRECISION, NO-WORD-WASTED, DIALOGUE-DRIVEN BANGERS & NOT GETTING ANY RESPECT*

*I know the shit is highly regarded and was a national book award finalist but it's not enough

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

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