The Digger's Game by George V. Higgins

Fiction

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SKU:
435
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1 unit
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Date of publication:
1973
Condition:
Very good
ISBN:
0394483162
ISBN-13:
9780394483160
Format:
Hardcover with dust jacket, 214 pages
Author:
George V. Higgins
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
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Product Overview

Jerry "Digger" Doherty is an ex-con and proprietor of a workingman's Boston bar, who supplements his income with the occasional "odd job," like stealing live checks and picking up hot goods. His brother’s a priest, his wife’s a nag, and he’s got a deadly appetite for martinis and gambling. But when the Digger looses eighteen grand in borrowed money on a trip to Vegas, he quickly finds himself in the sights of mob loneshark “the Greek,” who will have to make the Digger pay up one way or another. Luckily—if you call it luck—the Digger has been let in on a little job that can turn his gambling debt into a profit, as long as he can pull it off without getting killed.

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, this Borzoi Book is a very good condition first edition.