Cogan's Trade is a top-notch 'hard boiled' crime novel. Crackling dialogue, mordant humour, and unremitting tension drive the suspenseful stakes of the game higher in Boston's precarious underworld of small-time mobsters, crooked lawyers, and political gofers.
The film Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt, based on this crime masterpiece is due to be released in cinemas in the UK September 2012. See a trailer for it below.
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Thriller and Suspense Street fiction / urban fiction Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction Modern and Contemporary Fiction |