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 he calls his friends should he send up river? Set on the mean streets of Boston and told almost entirely in crackling dialogue by a vivid cast of cops and lowlifes, The Friends of Eddie Coyle set a standard for authentically gritty crime fiction that has never been bettered.
Read by Mark Hammer. Narrator Mark Hammer came to Audiogooks with a long and distinguished career in the theater. He was a drama professor at Catholic University and a beloved acting coach at New York’s Stella Adler Studio. He has appeared in major regional theaters and Broadway productions as well as on television and radio. Listeners and audio critics agree that the characters and regional dialects they hear in Mark Hammer’s narrations are astounding. AudioFile touts this narrator as “one of the finest interpreters of our day.”
(p) 2012 Recorded Books
Read by Mark Hammer. Narrator Mark Hammer came to Audiogooks with a long and distinguished career in the theater. He was a drama professor at Catholic University and a beloved acting coach at New York’s Stella Adler Studio. He has appeared in major regional theaters and Broadway productions as well as on television and radio. Listeners and audio critics agree that the characters and regional dialects they hear in Mark Hammer’s narrations are astounding. AudioFile touts this narrator as “one of the finest interpreters of our day.”
(p) 2012 Recorded Books
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The best crime novel ever written
If you haven't read George V. Higgins you can't call yourself a fan of crime fiction
A portrait of life on the street as realistic as any ever written
Higgins deserves to stand in the company of Chandler and Hammett as one of the true innovators in crime fiction
Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched
No one ever did it better