Rat on Fire

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

''Every American crime writer of the past 30 years owes a debt to George V Higgins. Higgins is the daddy. Read him and rejoice'' Val McDermid

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