Books
April, 1981
Reading a novel by George V. Higgins is a lot like listening to late-night talk radio. The characters rattle on for pages, and while the topics don't include UFOs or ESP, just about everything else gets equal time. The Rat on Fire (Knopf) is the latest from the author of The Friends of Eddie Coyle and The Digger's Game. There are three pages of plot (a crew of lowlifes torch an apartment building by dousing rats with gasoline, setting their tails on fire and turning them loose in the basement) a...
