The Friends of Eddie Coyle

 Here's another good reason to mention The Friends of Eddie Coyle. John Holliday, who designs the covers for the Trinity novels let me know The Friends of Eddie Coyle was an answer to a Jeopardy question recently. Maybe last night. Sorry I missed it. But it gives me a chance to quote from the book. Notice the name of the character Eddie's talking to. Elmore Leonard noticed the name and used it as the name of a title character. Another thing. In the book, the hockey team in Boston is called "the Broons."

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 Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns. "I can get you, probably, six pieces. Tomorrow night. In a week or so, maybe ten days, another dozen. I got a guy coming in with at least ten of them but I already talk to another guy about four of them and he's, you know, expecting them. He's got something to do. So, six tomorrow night. Another dozen in a week." 
    The stocky man sat across from Jackie Brown and allowed his coffee to grow cold. "I don't know as I like that," he said. "I don't know if I like buying stuff from the same lot as somebody else. Like, I don't know what he's going to do with it, you know? If it was to cause trouble to my people on account of somebody else having some from the same lot, well, it could cause trouble for me, too.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle, 
by George V. Higgins