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Coogan's Trade is the foundation for the approaching movie Getting rid of Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt.Cogan's Trade is the top-notch offense novel scored by the The New Yorker as the "best" from "the Balzac of the Boston underworld". Crackling dialogue, mordant laughter, and unremitting stress drive the suspenseful stakes of the overall game higher in Boston's precarious underworld of small-time mobsters, crooked solicitors, and political gofers as George V. Higgins, the writer who boiled offense fiction harder, songs Jackie Cogan's profession in a gangland version of law and order. For Cogan is an enforcer; and when the Mob's rules get cracked, he gets hired to ply his trade: murder. In the gritty, tough-talking web pages of Higgins' 1974 nationwide best-seller, Cogan is called in whenever a high-stakes cards game under the security of the Mob is heisted. Expertly, with a ruthless businessman's efficiency, a shrewd sense of other people's weaknesses, and a style as frigid as his stare, Cogan moves with reliable detail to revive the position quo as ill-conceived capers and double-dealing shenanigans erupt into high-voltage violence.
