Los amigos de Eddie Coyle

In late-1960s Boston, mafia activities and the Black Panthers are top concerns for the police. Eddie Coyle, a small-time crook with good connections, faces a three-year sentence for smuggling. His only chance to avoid prison is to turn in a big fish. Who will he betray among the hitmen, thugs, and thieves he knows? Meanwhile, he becomes a weapons supplier for a group of robbers. Published in 1970, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is considered one of the best noir novels of the 20th century. The novel revolutionized the genre, with dialogues and characters that captured the gritty, complex reality of crime, moving away from simplistic good-versus-evil narratives.