- Hardcover: 296 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; First edition edition (5 May 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316908509
- ISBN-13: 978-0316908504
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 713,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A league apart is Bomber's Law by George V. Higgins, one of the most accomplished novelists ever to write in the crime-fiction field."
-The Wall Street Journal
"A brilliantly funny depiction of small-timers, their scams and grudges."
-The New York Daily News
"Bomber's Law is one of Higgins's best books and plainly the work of a man who knows his craft inside and out . . . If the world were a just place (whaddya nuts?), this book would make Higgins a fortune and burnish his critical reputation forever."
-Newsweek
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-The Wall Street Journal
"A brilliantly funny depiction of small-timers, their scams and grudges."
-The New York Daily News
"Bomber's Law is one of Higgins's best books and plainly the work of a man who knows his craft inside and out . . . If the world were a just place (whaddya nuts?), this book would make Higgins a fortune and burnish his critical reputation forever."
-Newsweek
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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By the time Bomber Lawrence retired as commanding officer of the Detective Division, Short Joey Mossi had already murdered 11 people for the mob. Bomber's replacement, Brian Dennison, in an attempt to catch Mossi, recalls the talented but troublesome Sergeant Harry Dell'Appa.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The problem's really getting to me now...is George V. or Joseph Wambaugh the greatest?
To get into Higgins can take a bit of effort initially with the stories told in dialogue with little narrative...but, boy, is it ever worth the effort!
To get into Higgins can take a bit of effort initially with the stories told in dialogue with little narrative...but, boy, is it ever worth the effort!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
George V. Higgins at his best!
28 Jan 1999
Format:Paperback
George V. Higgins has earned his place as the Balzac of Boston, describing through the use of dialogue various low-level crooks, pols, lawyers, and other low life. No one can top him for a sense of the language, nor for the desperation in his characters. He really sets the pace in this genre. Bomber's Law is as good as it comes.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Drowning in chatter
26 Aug 2001
Format:Paperback
Maybe it's me. I thought The Friends of Eddie Coyle was a masterly novel, but twenty years later, this one drove me nuts. The long conversations are utterly unlifelike. I have never in my life heard conversations like these. And the windup is not worth the effort to get through to it.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I've never read anything like it.
23 Mar 1998
Format:Paperback
The dialogue went all over the place but in the in, I liked it. Nothing made sense until the end.
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