Killing Them Softly

FIRST VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD EDITION,

NOVEMBER 2011

Copyright © 1974 by George V. Higgins

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover under the title Cogan’s Trade in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1974.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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Higgins, George V.

Killing Them Softly.

I. Title.

PZH.H6365Co

813′.5 4 73–20438

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