Higgins is the reason I started writing 30+ years ago. That opening line to Eddie Coyle is seared in my brain. For me it was an epiphany; not everything I read had to be torture. Higgins put you in the moment without 3 pages of descriptive narrative. He'll always be THE MASTER to me.
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