The Rat on Fire George V. Higgins

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The Rat on Fire by George V. Higgins

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'Higgins...has arranged the conventions of the crime novel into something new: oblique, bleak and often graveyard funny' THE SUNDAY TIMES

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The Rat on Fire by George V. Higgins

'Higgins...has arranged the conventions of the crime novel into something new: oblique, bleak and often graveyard funny' THE SUNDAY TIMES

When the tenants of Jerry Fein's dilapidated buildings refuse to pay the rent on account of the rats, Jerry drafts in arsonist Leo Proctor to take care of the problem. After all, the place is insured and the fire marshall's back is turned, so what could go wrong?

The Rat on Fire Reviews

Aspiring writers of any genre, not just legal suspense, would be wise to read lots of George Higgins. - John Grisham

Higgins can plot a whole book like one long chase scene. He can write dialogue so authentic it spits. - Life

The Balzac of the Boston underworld... Higgins is almost uniquely blessed with a gift for voices, each of them... as distinctive as a fingerprint. - The New Yorker

About George V. Higgins

George V. Higgins was a lawyer in the Massachusetts Attorney General's office, in the Organized Crime section and the Criminal Division, and an Assistant United States Attorney, in Boston. He then founded his own private practice, defending Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy and Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. Described as 'the Balzac of the Boston underworld', he wrote more than twenty novels, including a number of lowlife masterpieces constructed almost entirely out of pitch-perfect dialogue. He died in 1999.

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GOR012213750

ISBN 13

9781409137542

ISBN 10

1409137546

Title

The Rat on Fire by George V. Higgins

Author

George V. Higgins

Condition

Used - Well Read

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Orion Publishing Co

Year published

2013-01-01

Number of pages

224

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