Outlaws

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781409138181

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Genre: Classic Crime / Crime & Mystery / Suspense

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‘A hell of a story from a hell of a storyteller’ Daily Mail

‘Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched’ Washington Post

1970, Boston, and a daring attack on an armoured transport delivering money to a bank, catches Massachusetts law enforcement napping. While the police are still trying to figure out where this new and coldly efficient gang sprang from, more dazzling heists follow – each one meticulously planned and ruthlessly executed.

It soon becomes clear these are no ordinary criminals, but as one of the cops assigned to the case figures, ‘longhairs that got bored with protesting the war and branched out.’ Faced with a tight-knit cell of urban revolutionaries led by a charismatic intellectual with no compunction about killing for the cause, the authorities seem powerless to stop them.

Unless they step outside the law themselves…

Reviews

Higgins brings the generation gap into sharp relief in this pulsing thriller
CATHOLIC HERALD
My favourite of the recent Higgins reissues
Jake Kerridge
A tour de force
NEW YORK TIMES
My favourite of the recent Higgins reissues
Jake Kerridge, The Sunday Telegraph
Higgins brings the generation gap into sharp relief in this pulsing thriller
CATHOLIC HERALD
Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched
WASHINGTON POST
A hell of a story from a hell of a storyteller
DAILY MAIL