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The Friends of Eddie Coyle

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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

Critics Review

The best crime novel ever written
Elmore Leonard
A portrait of life on the street as realistic as any ever written
Dennis Lehane
Higgins deserves to stand in the company of Chandler and Hammett as one of the true innovators in crime fiction
Scott Turow
Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched
WASHINGTON POST
If you haven't read George V. Higgins you can't call yourself a fan of crime fiction
Val McDermid
No one ever did it better
NEW YORK TIMES
Author George V. Higgins
Narrator Mark Hammer
Duration 5 hours and 40 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781409128922
Format Audiobook
Publisher Orion
Genre Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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