George V. Higgins was a lawyer in the Massachusetts Attorney General's office, in the Organized Crime section and the Criminal Division, and an Assistant United States Attorney, in Boston. He then founded his own private practice, defending Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy and Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. Described as 'the Balzac of the Boston underworld', he wrote more than twenty novels, including a number of lowlife masterpieces constructed almost entirely out of pitch-perfect dialogue. He died in 1999.
El propietario de un lúgubre edificio de apartamentos de Boston cuyos inquilinos llevan tiempo sin pagar el alquiler en protesta por el penoso estado de la finca cree que prenderle fuego sería la manera más fácil de desahuciarlos. Pero la tarea no será fácil: los delincuentes encargados...
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