Friends of Eddie Coyle

''The best crime novel ever written'' - Elmore Leonard

''If you haven''t read George V. Higgins you can''t call yourself a fan of crime fiction'' Val McDermid

''Higgins deserves to stand in the company of Chandler and Hammett as one of the true innovators in crime fiction'' Scott Turow

When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he''s looking at three years in the pen - that is, u...