'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' is one of the most famous novels about Boston, as it realistically and unglamorously depicts a small-time criminal in Boston's Irish-American underworld in Boston. It was also the debut novel of author George Higgins who was serving in what non-literary profession?

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1. 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' is one of the most famous novels about Boston, as it realistically and unglamorously depicts a small-time criminal in Boston's Irish-American underworld in Boston. It was also the debut novel of author George Higgins who was serving in what non-literary profession?