Cogan's Trade by George V Higgins

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


The dialogue is on another planet. Higgins is up there with Tarantino as a master of speech. I would love to see this as a play. I mean, hell... it would just kill on the stage. Some of the best characters, and interactions I've ever read. It's almost like eavesdropping in a bar, or in the backseat of Plymouth and just overhearing the craziest shit. I can't wait for the film adaptation retitled Killing Them Softly. The cast they've gotten for director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James) is going to set the material on fire (Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Richard Jenkings, Sam Shepherd, and Garret Dillahunt)!



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