Title: This book isn't good
Review: Come on people; a "literary thriller" should still be readable, with discernible plot and some nodding acquaintance with reality. This book has none of these things. It is entirely dialogue-driven, which is fine, but nobody talks that much and so well. I could go on, but bottom line is that as much as I had heard about Friends of Eddie Coyle and looked forward to reading it, it was good but not great. This book is just plain bad. Face it--if "George D. Higgins" and not "George V. Higgins" was on the cover, it wouldn't have made it past an editor's desk.
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