Killing Them Softly (Cogan's Trade Movie Tie-in Edition)

Killing Them Softly (Cogan's Trade Movie Tie-in Edition)
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Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9780345805027
ISBN-13 : 034580502X
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Killing Them Softly (Cogan's Trade Movie Tie-in Edition) by : George V Higgins

Download or read book Killing Them Softly (Cogan's Trade Movie Tie-in Edition) written by George V Higgins and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Brad Pitt Jackie Cogan is an enforcer for the mob. When a high-stakes card game is heisted by unknown hoodlums, Cogan is called in to “handle” the problem. Moving expertly and ruthlessly among a variety of criminal hacks, hangers-on, and bigger-time crooks—a classic cast of misfits animated by Higgins’s hilarious, cracklingly authentic dialogue—Cogan gets to the root of the problem and, with five consecutive shots from a Smith & Wesson thirty-eight Police Special, restores order to his corner of the underworld.

Cogan's Trade

Cogan's Trade
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Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780307947239
ISBN-13 : 0307947238
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Cogan's Trade by : George V. Higgins

Download or read book Cogan's Trade written by George V. Higgins and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hard-hitting, tour de force tale of the mob and the man who makes sure their rules are the only rules, by the American master of crime George V. Higgins. Jackie Cogan is an enforcer, and when the mob's rules get broken, Cogan is called in to take care of business. This time a high-stakes card game has been held up by an unknown gang of thugs. Calculating, ruthless, businesslike, and with a shrewd sense of other people's weaknesses, Cogan plies his trade, moving among a variety of hoods, hangers-on, and big-timers, tracking those responsible, and returning "law and order" to the lawless Boston underworld. Combining remarkable wit, crackling dialogue, and a singular ability to show criminal life as it is lived, George V. Higgins builds an incredible story of crime to an unforgettable climax.

Killing Them Softly

Killing Them Softly
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0307950794
ISBN-13 : 9780307950796
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Killing Them Softly by : George V. Higgins

Download or read book Killing Them Softly written by George V. Higgins and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under the title: Cogan's trade (New York: Knopf, 1974).

Six Silent Men...Book Three

Six Silent Men...Book Three
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Publisher : Ivy Books
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9780307559760
ISBN-13 : 0307559769
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Six Silent Men...Book Three by : Gary Linderer

Download or read book Six Silent Men...Book Three written by Gary Linderer and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Eyes and Ears of the Screaming Eagles . . ." By 1969, the NVA had grown more experienced at countering the tactics of the long range patrols, and SIX SILENT MEN: Book Three describes some of the fiercest fighting Lurps saw during the war. Based on his own experience and extensive interviews with other combat vets of the 101st's Lurp companies, Gary Linderer writes this final, heroic chapter in the seven bloody years that Lurps served God and country in Vietnam. These tough young warriors--grossly outnumbered and deep in enemy territory--fought with the guts, tenacity, and courage that have made them legends in the 101st.

Narrow Dog to Carcassonne

Narrow Dog to Carcassonne
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Publisher : Delta
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780440337560
ISBN-13 : 0440337569
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Narrow Dog to Carcassonne by : Terry Darlington

Download or read book Narrow Dog to Carcassonne written by Terry Darlington and published by Delta. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious and true story of two senior-citizens and their whippet dog who hatch, plan and carry out a “lunatic scheme” to sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of France.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
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Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9781429931984
ISBN-13 : 1429931981
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Friends of Eddie Coyle by : George V. Higgins

Download or read book The Friends of Eddie Coyle written by George V. Higgins and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic novel from "America's best crime novelist" (Time), with a new introduction by Dennis Lehane George V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the pen--that is, unless he sells out one of his big-fish clients to the DA. But which of the many hoods, gunmen, and executioners whom he calls his friends should he send up the river? Told almost entirely in crackling dialogue by a vivid cast of lowlifes and detectives, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of the greatest crime novels ever written. “The best crime novel ever written--makes The Maltese Falcon read like Nancy Drew.” -- Elmore Leonard

Six Silent Men

Six Silent Men
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Publisher : Ballantine Books
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9780307434586
ISBN-13 : 0307434583
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Six Silent Men by : Reynel Martinez

Download or read book Six Silent Men written by Reynel Martinez and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No way in hell you could survive 'out there' with six men. You couldn't live thirty minutes 'out there' with only six men." [pg. 13] In 1965 nearly four hundred men were interviewed and only thirty-two selected for the infant LRRP Detachment of the lst Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Old-timers called it the suicide unit. Whether conducting prisoner snatches, search and destroy missions, or hunting for the enemy's secret base camps, LRRPs depended on one another 110 percent. One false step, one small mistake by one man could mean sudden death for all. Author Reynel Martinez, himself a 101st LRRP Detachment veteran, takes us into the lives and battles of the extraordinary men for whom the brotherhood of war was and is an ever-present reality: the courage, the sacrifice, the sense of loss when one of your own dies. In the hills, valleys, and triple-canopy jungles, the ambushes, firefights, and copter crashes, LRRPs were among the best and bravest to fight in Vietnam.