Higgins, George Vincent

Higgins, George Vincent
▪ 2000

      American crime novelist whose sharply drawn underworld characters in such dialogue-rich novels as The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972), a runaway best-seller that was made into a film starring Robert Mitchum, The Digger's Game (1973), and Cogan's Trade (1974) mirrored those he encountered while serving as a federal prosecutor in Boston; a prolific writer, who turned out some 30 works, Higgins also served as a journalist, writing for Boston newspapers and The Wall Street Journal (b. Nov. 13, 1939, Brockton, Mass.—found dead, apparently of natural causes, Nov. 6, 1999, Milton, Mass.).

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