COGAN’S TRADE: A CLASSIC NOVEL OF LOW-LIFE CRIME
Book ID/图书代码： 12844011B49731
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一則高額賭金搶案，破壞了黑幫的規矩
冷酷精明的Jackie Cogan奉命追捕犯人，因而捲入黑幫火拼
槍火激戰之下，誰才能搶得「正義」的封號？ 傑克柯恩(Jackie Cogan)作風強硬，被賦予維護黑社會秩序的任務。一旦有人試圖打破規則，就會被傑克冷酷精明的眼睛盯上…。
而現今，在黑幫舉辦的高賭注撲克遊戲中，竟有人敢在太歲頭上動土，搶走高額賭金！傑克奉命出動追捕搶匪，也因此遭到兩派黑幫夾擊！
槍林彈雨之中，黑吃黑的世界，誰才代表「正義」？(Eva)
Awards/获奖情况：電影將由布萊德彼特將擔綱主角Jackie Cogan！
電影訊息：http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764234/ Review
“Higgins deserves to stand in the company of the likes of Chandler and Hammett as one of the true innovators in crime fiction.” ---Scott Turow
"Higgins can plot a whole book like one long chase scene. He can write dialogue so authentic it spits." ---Life
"The Balzac of the Boston underworld. ... Higgins is almost uniquely blessed with a gift for voices, each of them ... as distinctive as a fingerprint."---The New Yorker
“One of the great crime writers of the twentieth century.”---Kansas City Star
“Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched.” ---The Washington Post
“A uniquely gifted writer . . . who does at least as well by the Hogarthian Boston he knows as Raymond Chandler once did for Southern California.”---The New York Times
"Superb. . . Higgins is a complete novelist. His work will be read when the work of competing writers has been forgotten."---Chicago Daily News
"Brilliant. . . Higgins is a master stylist."---New York Post
“George V. Higgins’s mastery of the patois of the Boston criminal class is legendary.”---San Jose Mercury News
About the Author/作者介绍： George V. Higgins was the author of more than twenty novels, including the bestsellers The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Cogan’s Trade, 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.
喬治‧希金斯(George V. Higgins)撰寫超過20部小說，以犯罪小說為主，包括《The Friends of Eddie Coyle》、《Cogan’s Trade》、《The Rat on Fire》以及《The Digger’s Game》等作，他的作品以精妙設計的對話，以及對黑社會深刻的描繪見長，著名歐美推理評論家基亭(H. R. F. Keating)將其作品列為自己心目中最棒的犯罪小說，其作也曾列入英國書商協會(British Booksellers Association)「二戰後二十部最棒的美國小說」名單中。
在取得波士頓學院法律系的法學學位之前，希金斯在普羅維敦斯紀事報(Providence Journal)以及美國聯合通訊社(the Associated Press)擔任記者一職，並於1969年到1973年在波士頓擔任首席檢察官助理(assistant attorney general)以及助理聯邦檢察官(assistant United States attorney)，之後在波士頓大學擔任教職，教導創意寫作課程，於1999年去世。
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