At End of Day - Couverture rigide

Higgins, George V.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151003580 ISBN 13 : 9780151003587

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000

Synopsis

Every state police officer in Boston knows that Arthur McKeach and Nick Cistaro are the most prolific and ruthless practitioners of extortion, fraud, theft, bribery, assault, and murder in the area. What none of them know is how to stop these Michelangelos of crime, who for thirty years have eluded jail-and even arrest. Their secret is at the heart of George Higgins's most searing and shocking dissection of the criminal life yet. At End of Day lays bare not only the inner workings of a criminal empire, but also reveals the corruption at the heart of American law enforcement. Few writers have mapped the intricate highways and byways of crime with equal vividness and elegance, and with At End of Day, Higgins has created a cast of characters to match his unique gifts. McKeach and Cistaro stand shoulder-to-shoulder with any of Eddie Coyle's friends, and their story solidifies George Higgins's place in the forefront of novelists who write about crime in America.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"At End of Day is a return to the form that made Higgins famous: the crime story, a tale of villains and compromised good guys. . . . It's a sin and a shame that George V. Higgins never won the Pulitzer Prize."
-Seattle Times

"The last novel of the late George V. Higgins shows no hint of failing skill or mellowing temper. The dialouge is as raffishly eloquent as ever, the action as disconcerting to the lawfully minded, and the author's underlying attitude what it has regularly been - a plague on all your houses."
-Atlantic Monthly

"All the famous ingredients are present - the pitch-perfect dialouge, the shaggy-dog monlogues, the lively mugs. . . . Always readable, always entertaining, the lowlife's Boswell - no one else was ever quite like him."
-The Philadelphia Inquirer

"At End of Day is a terrific and topical book that takes off from headlines . . . a return to the criminal milieu of The Friends of Eddie Coyle."
-The Boston Globe

Présentation de l'éditeur

Every cop knows that Arthur McKeach and Nick Cistaro are the most prolific and ruthless practitioners of extortion, fraud, theft, bribery, assault, and murder in the Northeast. What they don't know is how to stop these Michelangelos of crime, who for thirty years have eluded jail-and even arrest. Their secret is at the heart of George Higgins's most searing and shocking dissection of the criminal life yet. At End of Day lays bare not only the inner workings of a criminal empire, but also reveals the corruption at the heart of American law enforcement.

Few writers have mapped the intricate highways and byways of crime with equal vividness and elegance. With this final novel, "a return to the criminal milieu of The Friends of Eddie Coyle" (The Boston Globe), Higgins solidified his place in the forefront of novelists who write about crime in America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151003580
• ISBN 13: 9780151003587
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible