Playbill

January, 1973

Playbill soon after its publication some 11 months ago, a slim thriller about a bunch of small-time Boston hoods, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, was being called "the sleeper of the year" and had been purchased by Paramount for 1973 screen release. Its author, first-time novelist George V. Higgins, had a finely tuned ear for dialog and a chilling insight into the life style of the second-echelon crook. That figured: Higgins is Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts--a f...