Libros del Asteroide: Los Amigos de Eddie Coyle (Series #85) (Paperback)

from HHS-Staff

Reviewed by Mr. Overeem (Language Arts) What more needs to be said than Higgins was Elmore Leonard's model for crime fiction? Eddie Coyle is a weary career criminal looking for a way out so he can live out the rest of his (very modest) life in peace. Not so fast, Eddie. Not surprisingly, the way ...

from cwflatt

This was one of the most unusual books I have ever read and I LOVED IT!! I read it twice back to back and cant wait to read it again. It's all about the dialogue. Amazing lesson in words mean things. How to tell a lie by telling the truth or vise versa. I got the idea to read this book from the T...

from datrappert

Although you can guess how it ends, this novel impresses for the near perfection of its execution. Most of the story is told through conversations, and the reader slowly comes to know the characters through these conversations, some of them pretty funny in a very dark way, rather than a lot of na...

from ben_a

What kind of person will smash a man in the face with a gun for money? Noir, realistic fiction does not go in for soppy sentimentality about mobsters. These are bad people, defective human beings. The natural comparison for me is Westlake's Parker novels. My brief (n=2) exposure to Parker suggest...

from mstrust

Eddie Coyle has no friends, just other guys who run in the same circle. He's a small time crook who is about to stand trial for stealing a truckload of whiskey. His most usual income is buying hot guns and selling them to acquaintances who need cheap guns fast. In Eddie's world, everyone is movin...