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The traditional book from "America's greatest crime novelist" (Period), with a brand new introduction by Dennis LehaneGeorge V. Higginsis seminal crime book is just a down-and-dirty story of robbers, police, and mobsters to the mean streets of Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is charged on the prison, heis taking a look at 3 years in the pencil--that's, until he offers out one of is own large-seafood customers towards the DA. But which of the numerous hoods, gunmen, and executioners whom he calls his buddies must he send-up the water? Told almost entirely in crackling conversation with a vibrant cast of investigators and lowlifes, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is among the best crime books ever created.