Los Amigos de Eddie Coyle / The Friends of Eddie Coyle Higgins, George V./ Lehane, Dennis (CON)

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In Boston in the late 1960s, the activities of the mafia and of the Black Panthers are two of the police force's main concerns. Eddie Coyle, a minor gangster with good connections, faces a three-year sentence for contraband, and his only way of avoiding jail time is offering up a kingpin to the police. Which of the gunmen, thugs, and thieves he's acquainted with will he betray? Considered to be one of the best noir novels of the past century, this debut novel's publication in 1970 revolutionized the genre in the United States.

En el Boston de finales de los 60, las actividades de la mafia y de las Panteras Negras son dos de las cuestiones que más preocupan a la policía. Eddie Coyle, un delincuente de poca monta con buenas conexiones, se enfrenta a una condena de tres años por contrabando y su única oportunidad para evitar la cárcel es entregarle a la policía un pez gordo. ¿A quién de los pistoleros, matones y ladrones que conoce delatará? Considerada como una de las mejores novelas negras del pasado siglo, la publicación de esta primera novela en 1970 revolucionó el género en los Estados Unidos.

Author Bio

Dennis Lehane

A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston--the city that was the muse for much of his oeuvre--Dennis Lehane was born to Irish immigrant parents in 1965. Before publishing his first novel in 1994, A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR, Lehane held many odd jobs (including as a limo driver, a waiter, and a counselor for abused and mentally handicapped kids) and attended Eckerd College. His debut novel introduced a pair of private investigator heroes who would tether his subsequent four novels and help him establish his name: Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. The Kenzie-Gennaro novel GONE, BABY, GONE was adapted for the screen in 2007, although Lehane's Hollywood career began in 2003 with the critically acclaimed adaptation starting Sean Penn of his 2001 novel, MYSTIC RIVER. A sophisticated and powerful novel that explores the gritty streets of Boston's roughest neighborhoods and the organized crime families that dominate that world, MYSTIC RIVER launched Lehane's career to another level, and he followed it up in fine form with works like the psychological suspense novel SHUTTER ISLAND and the historical drama THE GIVEN DAY. In 2010 Lehane returned to his classic characters with another Kenzie-Gennaro story in MOONLIGHT MILE. Lehane has also written for the stage (CORONADO) and was a contributing writer for several episodes of the television program, THE WIRE. Lehane still resides in Boston, with his second wife.

Famous for his dark, sparsely written tales uncovering Boston's criminal underbelly, George Vincent Higgins was born a good Catholic boy in Brockton, Massachusetts, son of two Irish-American schoolteachers. Throughout his boyhood years in working class Rockland, Mass., Higgins feverishly read the works of Ernest Hemingway, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and John O'Hara. At the sprightly age of 15, he wrote his first and never published novel, OPERATION CINCINNATUS, which he would destroy 20 years later. After graduating from Rockland High School in 1957, Higgins attended Boston College. In 1961, he fled the East Coast to study at Stanford University, where he received a master's degree. While attending Boston College Law School in the mid-1960s, Higgins worked as a reporter for Providence, Rhode Island's Journal and Evening Bulletin newspaper and for the Associated Press bureau in Boston. It was at this time that he formed an acquaintance with the urban underworld that would later become a major element in his 25 crime novels. In 1967, he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and began a career of prosecuting murders related to the explosive rivalry between the Irish and Italian Mafiosi going on at that time. In 1974, Higgins opened a private practice as a criminal attorney and defended such illustrious clients as Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy and Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. He also continued his reporting gig, writing for newspapers that included the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and the London Times. In 1987, he was appointed professor of creative writing at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Then there were the novels. In 1972, his second--and most famous--book, THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, was published to high acclaim. His story of a Boston hustler who trades his life of crime for a cop job was made into a 1973 feature film starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle. Though the 24 novels that followed EDDIE COYLE received similar critical acclaim, none were ever as popular. Higgins' final book, AT END OF DAY, was published in 2000, just after his death in Boston, the town he knew best.

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