Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A series of dazzlingly successful armored-car robberies, with no link to the underworld, takes place in the New England of the 1970s. . Young urban terrorists, turned on by the radical politics of the sixties... unwilling to bother with distinctions between ends and means. In this fiendishly well-crafted and explosive novel about betrayers and the betrayed, Higgins shows how the establishment... takes revenge by forging alliances that move its members beyond the law. Clean copy.