Cogan's Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the New Yorker as the "best" from "the Balzac
 of the Boston underworld." Crackling dialogue, mordant humor, and unremitting tension drive the
 suspenseful stakes of the game higher in Boston's precarious underworld of small-time mobsters,
 crooked lawyers, and political gofers as George V. Higgins, the writer who boiled crime fiction 
harder, tracks Jackie Cogan's career in a gangland version of law and order. For Cogan is an enforcer;
 and when the Mob's rules get broken, he gets hired to ply his trade—murder. In the gritty,
 tough-talking pages of Higgins's 1974 national best-seller, Cogan is called in when a high-stake card
 game under the protection of the Mob is heisted. Expertly, with a ruthless businessman's efficiency,
 a shrewd sense of other people's weaknesses, and a style as cold as his stare, Cogan moves with reliable
 precision to restore the status quo as ill-conceived capers and double-dealing shenanigans erupt into
 high-voltage violence. "Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched.
"—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post 
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