“The Easiest Thing in the World” (Carroll & Graf, 308 pp., $26) is the title of a posthumous collection of George V. Higgins’ short fiction. It’s also a fitting description for the task of praising ...

Little has been heard of the project since but a Playlist reader tipped us that “Cogan’s Trade” was the novel in question (thanks Yemsal!). We did some digging and while news is scarce one particular ...

Andrew Dominik, the Kiwi filmmaker responsible for the beautiful, Malick-esque Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, optioned the adaptation rights for George V. Higgins’ Boston ...

BOSTON (CN) - The widow of bestselling author George V. Higgins says two production companies misused her late husband's name and violated copyright in making a movie based on his 30-year-old ...

Brad Pitt stars in director Andrew Dominik's crime film, based on George V. Higgins' 1974 crime novel "Cogan's Trade." By Stephanie Chan Brad Pitt reunites with writer-director Andrew Dominik for his ...

It was unhappily prescient of veteran mystery writer George V. Higgins to name his latest novel At End of Day because he died at 59 late last year as the book was in the final production phase.

An adaptation of George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade, Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing underground economy of junkies, killers and administrators to indict a ...

J. Todd Scott is a DEA special agent as well as a fine crime novelist. Reading his first novel, “The Far Empty,” I was reminded of Norman Mailer’s comment about then-Assistant U.S. Attorney George V.

David Mamet's new book, Chicago, is his first crime novel and a return to the 1920s gangland of his screenplay for The Untouchables. Below, the acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and director lists ...