Bomber's Law

by George V. Higgins

Book Overview

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, Brennan not only knows a lot, but he talks a lot, too -- about who Joey's killed, and about how and why. So why won't Brennan bring Joey in? That's what Harry has to find out.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805035664
• ISBN13: 9780805035667
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

George V. Higgins at his best!

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.

I've never read anything like it.

The dialogue went all over the place but in the in, I liked it. Nothing made sense until the end.