NOIRTRASH
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FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE by George V.Higgins
5 stars
It only took Higgins 17 years to sell this book tho it's the gold standard for modern noir.
Eddie "Fingers" Coyle is on his way to prison for hijacking a truck fulla stuff. He wants to make a deal with the Feds, to escape incarceration. Eddie makes his living selling guns to bank robbers.
The Feds suggest Eddie give them some bad guys for the deal.
Eddie gives them a kid who sells machine guns to terrorists.
But someone gives up a robbery gang and the son of Mister Big is killed in the shoot-out with the Feds. Mister Big thinks Eddie Coyle is the rat, and launches a contract to kill Eddie.
5 stars
It only took Higgins 17 years to sell this book tho it's the gold standard for modern noir.
Eddie "Fingers" Coyle is on his way to prison for hijacking a truck fulla stuff. He wants to make a deal with the Feds, to escape incarceration. Eddie makes his living selling guns to bank robbers.
The Feds suggest Eddie give them some bad guys for the deal.
Eddie gives them a kid who sells machine guns to terrorists.
But someone gives up a robbery gang and the son of Mister Big is killed in the shoot-out with the Feds. Mister Big thinks Eddie Coyle is the rat, and launches a contract to kill Eddie.
