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The Friends of Eddie Coyle

By: George V. Higgins
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
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When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the pen - that is, unless he sells out one of his big-fish clients to the DA. But which of the many hoods, gunmen and executioners he calls his friends should he send up river? Set on the mean streets of Boston and told almost entirely in crackling dialogue by a vivid cast of cops and lowlifes, The Friends of Eddie Coyle set a standard for authentically gritty crime fiction that has never been bettered.

Read by Mark Hammer. Narrator Mark Hammer came to Audiobooks with a long and distinguished career in the theater. He was a drama professor at Catholic University and a beloved acting coach at New York's Stella Adler Studio. He has appeared in major regional theaters and Broadway productions as well as on television and radio. Listeners and audio critics agree that the characters and regional dialects they hear in Mark Hammer's narrations are astounding. Audio File touts this narrator as "one of the finest interpreters of our day.

©1970 George V Higgins (P)1996 Recorded Books

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A Giant of a Writer

Superb. Only a genius like George V. Higgins could pull this off, using only dialog to build a world that has a reality more believable than any narrator could achieve.

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