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By the time Lieutenant Inspector Francis Clay arrives on the scene of the murder of Alexander Drouhin, head of one of the nation's leading sports agencies, he discovers that the gritty sport agent's friends and enemies all seem to have both motives and alibis. Tour.
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A once brilliant career is now in the decline for Alexander Drouhin, the central character of George V Higgins' The Agent, a slangy novel of the US sports scene's less than moral underside. His underlings at what was for a while the sharpest sports agency in town are worried that his flair is gone, that he is losing them big names and failing to get new ones; above all, they are worried that his recent coming out as gay will lead to a homophobic reaction from the clients that they do still have. In a powerful opening section, we get to appreciate Drouhin as a rogue who knows how to do things--he bails out a young footballer who has been drinking on the wrong side of town. And then, suddenly, he is dead, with a hole in his head the size of a baseball; Lt Francis Clay, one of Higgins' savvy political cops, has to find the answer and knows that it will come through talking and talking until the facts of Drouhin's death fall into place... As always, Higgins scores here through his brilliant command of contemporary American idiom; this is a book in which conversation does most of the work, and does it with scabrous charm. --Roz Kaveney
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Praise for George V. Higgins
"George V. Higgins vies with Elmore Leonard for the title of king of dialogue." -Digby Diehl, Playboy
"George V. Higgins vies with Elmore Leonard for the title of king of dialogue." -Digby Diehl, Playboy
"Higgins is my favorite....No, he doesn't learn from me, I learn from him." -Elmore Leonard
"Higgins is uniquely blessed with a gift for voices, each of them as distinctive as a fingerprint." -The New Yorker
"He's still the best." -John Grisham
"Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is numatched." -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"Higgins is a pro, an old hand at working us over, giving us our money's worth in his fictional briefs." -Shaun O'Connell, The Boston Globe
"A whiz of a stylist with a black belt in dialogue." -Newsweek
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- PublisherNo Exit Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 190198284X
- ISBN 13 9781901982848
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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