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Cogan's Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the New Yorker as the "best" from "the Balzac of the Boston underworld." Crackling dialogue, mordant humor, 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 as George V. Higgins, the writer who boiled crime fiction harder, tracks Jackie Cogan's career in a gangland version of law and order. For Cogan is an enforcer; and when the Mob's rules get broken, he gets hired to ply his trade-murder. In the gritty, tough-talking pages of Higgins's 1974 national best-seller, Cogan is called in when a high-stake card game under the protection of the Mob is heisted. Expertly, with a ruthless businessman's efficiency, a shrewd sense of other people's weaknesses, and a style as cold as his stare, Cogan moves with reliable precision to restore the status quo as ill-conceived capers and double-dealing shenanigans erupt into high-voltage violence. "Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched."-Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
 
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Hardback Editions

1975 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000LOLFMMTitle: Cogan's Trade
Author(s): George V. Higgins
Publisher: The Thriller Book Club
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June 1974 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0436195828Title: Cogan's Trade
Author(s): George V. Higgins
ISBN: 0-436-19582-8 / 978-0-436-19582-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
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March 1974 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0394490576Title: Cogan's Trade,
Author(s): George V. Higgins
ISBN: 0-394-49057-6 / 978-0-394-49057-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House
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1974 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000FDVL1OTitle: Cogan's Trade
Author(s): George V. Higgins
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Paperback Editions

December 2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0786711086Title: Cogan's Trade
Author(s): George V. Higgins
ISBN: 0-7867-1108-6 / 978-0-7867-1108-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
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January 1989 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1854870092Title: Cogan's Trade
Author(s): George V. Higgins
ISBN: 1-85487-009-2 / 9781854870094 (UK edition)
Publisher: Robinson Publishing
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October 1985 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0881841501Title: Cogan's Trade
Author(s): George V. Higgins
ISBN: 0-88184-150-1 / 978-0-88184-150-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
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May 1977 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0340200170Title: Cogan's Trade (Coronet Books)
Author(s): George V. Higgins
ISBN: 0-340-20017-0 / 978-0-340-20017-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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1975 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000X1NHF6Title: Cogan's Trade
Author(s): George V. Higgins
Publisher: Coronet
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1972 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000MWFGQOTitle: Cogan's Trade
Author(s): George V. Higgins
Publisher: Critic's choice Paperback
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Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0345293312Title: Cogans Trade
Author(s): Higgins George V.
ISBN: 0-345-29331-2 / 978-0-345-29331-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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