Killing Them Softly

Praise for George V. Higgins and COGAN’S TRADE

“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