Cogan's Trade
1974 novel by George V. Higgins / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the film adaptation, see Killing Them Softly.
Cogan's Trade is a 1974 crime novel by George V. Higgins. The novel was Higgins's third novel centered on crime in Boston neighborhoods,[1] following The Friends of Eddie Coyle and The Digger's Game. In Cogan's Trade, Cogan is a hitman who targets the person responsible for a card-game heist. The person is identified through a second heist and pursued by Cogan, who works for an anonymous benefactor who also has a non-criminal role in society.[2]
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Author | George V. Higgins |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Crime |
Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date | 1974 |
Pages | 216 |
ISBN | 978-0-394-49057-1 |
OCLC | 762621 |
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The 2012 film Killing Them Softly, directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Brad Pitt, is based on the novel.