George V. Higgins

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    October 2012
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Full Series List in Order

Jerry Kennedy

1 - The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Jan-1972)
2 - The Digger's Game (1973)
3 - Cogan's Trade (1974)
4 - The Judgment of Deke Hunter (1976)
5 - A Year or So With Hector (1979)
6 - Kennedy for the Defense (Feb-1980)
7 - The Rat on Fire (Feb-1981)
8 - The Patriot Game (Mar-1982)
9 - A Choice of Enemies (Dec-1983)
10 - Penance for Jerry Kennedy (Feb-1985)
11 - Impostors (Apr-1986)
12 - Outlaws (1987)
13 - The Sins of Their Father (1988)
14 - Wonderful Years, Wonderful Years (1988)
15 - Trust (Oct-1989)
16 - Victories (Nov-1990)
17 - The Mandeville Talent (Sep-1991)
18 - Defending Billy Ryan (1992)
19 - Bomber's Law (Nov-1993)
20 - Swan Boats at Four (May-1995)
21 - Sandra Nichols Found Dead (May-1996)
22 - The Agent (Jan-1999)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • The Friends of Eddie Coyle

    Jerry Kennedy - 1

    Eddie works for Jimmy Scalsi, supplying guns for bank jobs from gun-dealing Jackie. A cop named Foley is leaning on Eddie to finger Scalsi while Dillon, a full-time bartender and a part-time contract killer, is pretending to Eddie's friend. These a...

  • The Digger's Game

    Jerry Kennedy - 2

    Jerry "Digger" Doherty is an ex-con and proprietor of a workingman's Boston bar, who supplements his income with the occasional "odd job," like stealing live checks and picking up hot goods. His brother’s a priest, his wife’s a nag, and he’s go...

  • Cogan's Trade

    Jerry Kennedy - 3

    Cogan's Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the New Yorker as the "best" from "the Balzac of the Boston underworld." Crackling dialogue, mordant humor, and unremitting tension drive the suspenseful stakes of the game higher in Boston’s prec...

  • The Judgment of Deke Hunter

    Jerry Kennedy - 4

    Deke Hunter is a cop He has a nagging wife, a smug boss, a bad-news mistress, and an open-and-shut case that won't stay closed. Teddy Donnelly is a robber He has $40,000 from the Danvers National Bank -- and he's caught in the crooked teeth of j...

  • A Year or So With Hector

    Jerry Kennedy - 5

  • Kennedy for the Defense

    Jerry Kennedy - 6

    Attempting to spend a quiet family vacation at the shore at Green Harbor, Jerry Kennedy, the classiest sleazy-criminal lawyer in Boston, finds his peace disrupted by a midnight intruder with murder on his mind....

  • The Rat on Fire

    Jerry Kennedy - 7

    A riveting, blistering novel about the shady side of the law and the business side of the Boston underworld by the one and only George V. Higgins. Jerry Fein is a small-time lawyer, occasional booking agent, and full-time slumlord. But he’s no...

  • The Patriot Game

    Jerry Kennedy - 8

    For Pete Riordan the assignment is both simple and formidable: find the IRA leader who''s running around the US trying to be guns. (Nobody knows his name and nobody knows what he looks like.) There is one possible lead: two Massachusetts politicia...

  • A Choice of Enemies

    Jerry Kennedy - 9



  • Penance for Jerry Kennedy

    Jerry Kennedy - 10

    A fast-paced, witty and authentic novel that transports the reader into the exhilarating world of crime and chicanery that defines the life of Boston lawyer, Jerry Kennedy.  Heretofore successful lawyer Jerry Kennedy, our classy yet sleazy prota...

  • A City on a Hill

    Ex-newspaperman Hank Cavanaugh, right-hand PR man to Democratic Massachusetts Congressman Sam Barry, methodically sounding out and projecting his boss's presidential possibilities, subordinates his personal life to the privacies, panderings, and poli...

  • Impostors

    Jerry Kennedy - 11

    Mark Baldwin, a wealthy newspaper owner, hires Connie Gates to pretend to be an investigative reporter in order to get close to Joe Logan, and determine what information he will reveal at his trial about Baldwin...

  • Imposters

  • Outlaws

    Jerry Kennedy - 12

    In a story set in and around Boston from 1970 to the present, Outlaws explores the ambiguity of contemporary lawbreakers and high-level corruption. It examines international violence through the reactions of the many characters to Sam Tibbetts a drug...

  • The Sins of Their Father

    Jerry Kennedy - 13

  • Wonderful Years, Wonderful Years

    Jerry Kennedy - 14

    He was a big-league Bay State contractor who hired ex-cons, operated on the raw edge of the law, and knew a secret that could blow the lid off a long-hidden political scandal. Or so Justice Department prosecutors thought when they began building a ca...

  • Trust

    Jerry Kennedy - 15

    The characters truly speak for themselves in George V. Higgins’ chilling tour de force about deceit, blackmail and the importance of paying one’s dues.   Ultimate recidivist Earl Beale has learnt little from his early release from jail and ...

  • Victories

    Jerry Kennedy - 16

    A former baseball player, who has been dispirited by his past mistakes, finds his life rejuvenated after he reluctantly agrees to run against a radical hippie in the volatile Vermont state elections of 1968...

  • The Mandeville Talent

    Jerry Kennedy - 17

    Joe Corey, a promising young Manhattan attorney, gets drawn into an unsolved murder that happened 23 years ago. It's against his better judgment, but this is no ordinary crime. The victim is his wife's grandfather, Jim Mandeville, once president of a...



  • Defending Billy Ryan

    Jerry Kennedy - 18

    A brilliant novel that continues the exploits of Jerry Kennedy, known as the classiest sleazy criminal lawyer in Boston. Needing a case badly, he takes on the biggest of his career--one that nobody else wants--defending the once powerful commissioner...

  • Bomber's Law

    Jerry Kennedy - 19

    Bob Brennan is an old-school Boston cop who knows a lot about Short Joey Mossi, a mob hit man who's neatly taken care of at least eleven competitors. In fact, as Harry Dell'Appa, a hotshot detective recalled from banishment in the sticks, discovers, ...

  • Swan Boats at Four

    Jerry Kennedy - 20

    Aboard a deluxe ocean liner, a middle-aged couple with financial and marital problems are pigeonholed by a charming confidence man with a mission, and the three exchange revealing stories about their lives. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 first printi...

  • Sandra Nichols Found Dead

    Jerry Kennedy - 21

    While blithely trespassing in a Massachusetts wetland, a plant thief stumbles across a corpse: Sandra Nichols, who had been missing for months, was found bludgeoned to death. Time had provided the suspects - especially Peter Wade, Sandra's super-rich...

  • A Change of Gravity

    The day of judgment has come for Daniel Hilliard. Even though a flamboyant series of marital infidelities drove him out of the state senate in 1984--he's been cooling his heels ever since as president of Hampton Pond Community College--prosecutors th...

  • The Agent

    Jerry Kennedy - 22

    One of fiction’s keenest observers rips open the world of pro-sports agenting in this brisk tale of murder and mystery. Alexander Drouhin built one of the nation’s premier sports agencies through gritty negotiation and savvy marketing, but when h...

  • At End of Day

    Every cop knows that Arthur McKeach and Nick Cistaro are the most prolific and ruthless practitioners of extortion, fraud, theft, bribery, assault, and murder in the Northeast. What they don't know is how to stop these Michelangelos of crime, who for...

  • The Easiest Thing in the World

    The Easiest Thing in the World is a riveting collection of stories, film treatments, plays, and two never-before-published novellas -- the titular work and Slowly Now the Dancer. This is the prose we've come to expect from Higgins: tough tales of cor...

  • Killing Them Softly

    Jackie Cogan is an enforcer for the mob. When a high-stakes card game is heisted by unknown hoodlums, Cogan is called in to “handle” the problem. Moving expertly and ruthlessly among a variety of criminal hacks, hangers-on, and bigger-time crooks...

  • The Pariot GAme

    Fast-talking, hard-living politicians, priests, smugglers and thieves play the game of the Boston streets in George V. Higgins’ "The Patriot Game." Federal agent Pete Riordan is as tough as they come; he’s six-foot-four with a bad knee and...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

George V. Higgins has published 29 books.

George V. Higgins does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Pariot GAme, was published in October 2012.

The first book by George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, was published in January 1972.

Yes. George V. Higgins has 1 series.
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