Friends of Eddie Coyle (Orion Publishing Co)

When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the pen - that is, unless he sells out one of his big-fish clients to the DA. But which of the many hoods, gunmen and executioners he calls his friends should he send up river?Set on the mean streets of Boston and told almost entirely in crackling dialogue aby a vivid cast of cops and lowlifes, The Friends of Eddie Coyle set a kanon for authentically gritty crime fiction that has never been bettered.