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Killing Them Softly

by George V Higgins
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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.
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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Edition: Media tie-in

Kindle Book

  • Release date: September 25, 2012

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780345805027
  • Release date: September 25, 2012

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780345805027
  • File size: 2253 KB
  • Release date: September 25, 2012

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction Literature Mystery Thriller

Languages

English

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.
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Fiction Literature Mystery Thriller