Killing Them Softly (Cogan's Trade Movie Tie-in Edition)

by George V. Higgins

Genres: Thrillers; Adaptations

Synopsis

Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Brad Pitt

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer for the mob. When a high-stakes card game is heisted by unknown hoodlums, Cogan is called in to “handle” the problem. Moving expertly and ruthlessly among a variety of criminal hacks, hangers-on, and bigger-time crooks—a classic cast of misfits animated by Higgins’s hilarious, cracklingly authentic dialogue—Cogan gets to the root of the problem and, with five consecutive shots from a Smith & Wesson thirty-eight Police Special, restores order to his corner of the underworld.

Release date: September 25, 2012

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Print pages: 224