George V Higgins

'He is still the best"

George V. Higgins is the author of over twenty novels, beginning with The Friends of Eddie Coyle. His most recent novel, A Change of Gravity was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book for 1997. He lives in Massachusetts.

PRAISE FOR GEORGE V HIGGINS

'He is still the best' - John Grisham

'Higgins is my favourite. No, he doesn't learn from me, I learn from him.' - Elmore Leonard 'No one writes better police procedurals than Higgins...a powerful screed against greed; above all, and always, he is a moralist. The Agent resonates because it's an angry book, and the author's real subject is paradise lost' - Boston Globe

'As the detective gets his interviewees to talk, we spiral slowly closer to the truth in a flood of Boston English. It's glorious, boastful Higgins-talk - no one pours, drips and spatters words onto the page like George V., the Jackson Pollock of banter.' - San Francisco Chronicle

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The Agent by George V Higgins, 352pp, £6.99, ISBN: 1 901982 84 X