The Agent by George Higgins
Super sports agent Alexander Drouhin, a handsome, ruthless, slick lawyer, and his motley support team inhabit a cut-throat world obsessed with money, fame, and power, so when Drouhin is found with a couple of .44 slugs in his head, there is no shortage of suspects. By the time Lt Francis Clay arrives at the crime scene, it appears that everyone has an alibi and no one has a clue. More than a detective story, The Agent, is an unrelenting examination of a world in which no outrageous amount of money is ever enough and there is more to the game than just scoring points. George V Higgins, master of the literary thriller, turns his eye for detail and ear for dialogue to the seamy underside of the high powered, high dollar world of sports agenting.
one for Higgins connoisseurs * Sunday Telegraph *
Higgins is my favouriteNo, he doesn't learn from me, I learn from him -- Elmore Leonard
He is still the best -- John Grisham
As the detective gets his interviewees to talk, we spiral slowly closer to the truth in a flood of Boston English. It's glorious, boastful Higgins-talk - no one pours, drips and spatters words onto the page like George V., the Jackson Pollock of banter * San Francisco Chronicle *
No one writes better police procedurals than Higgins...a powerful screed against greed; above all, and always, he is a moralist. The Agent resonates because it's an angry book, and the author's real subject is paradise lost * Boston Globe *
Higgins is my favouriteNo, he doesn't learn from me, I learn from him -- Elmore Leonard
He is still the best -- John Grisham
As the detective gets his interviewees to talk, we spiral slowly closer to the truth in a flood of Boston English. It's glorious, boastful Higgins-talk - no one pours, drips and spatters words onto the page like George V., the Jackson Pollock of banter * San Francisco Chronicle *
No one writes better police procedurals than Higgins...a powerful screed against greed; above all, and always, he is a moralist. The Agent resonates because it's an angry book, and the author's real subject is paradise lost * Boston Globe *
George V. Higgins was the author of over twenty novels, beginning with The Friends of Eddie Coyle. A Change of Gravity was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book for 1997. He died November 6th 1999
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| ISBN 13 | 9781901982848 |
| ISBN 10 | 190198284X |
| Title | The Agent |
| Author | George Higgins |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Year published | 2000-01-10 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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