Elmore Leonard

Chili Palmer, a Miami loanshark, and Harry Zimm, a film producer in debt, become reluctant partners as they become embroiled in the seductive but deadly Hollywood scene. Reprint.

Get Shorty

Bookie Harry Arno is about to retire when he becomes the fall guy in an FBI assault on organized crime, but Harry has plans to protect his future--and let a U.S. marshal handle the mob. Reprint.

Pronto

Ordell Robbie sells illegal high-powered weapons to the wrong people. Jackie Burke couriers his profits, but the feds are on to her and she'll have to do prison time or play ball. This makes her a loose end Ordell needs to tie-up permanently. But Jackie has other options, and with the help of bail bondsman Max Cherry, she could even end up with a serious nest egg.

Rum Punch

When retired Miami bookie Harry Arno is kidnapped by three bungling, but deadly thugs, it is up to U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens to track him down--but the trio has devised a method of having Arno's own ransom paid. Reprint.

Riding the Rap

Robin Abbot and Emerson "Skip" Gibbs, ex-lovers and ex-radicals of the 1960s, team up once again in the 1980s to even an old score in Detroit against wealthy addict and former fellow radical Woody Ricks, while onetime bomb expert Chris Mankowski, now assigned to Sex Crimes, goes after Woody for another vicious crime. Reprint.

Freaky Deaky

Innocent witnesses to a mob-related murder, Carmen and Wayne Colson discover that the Witness Protection Program is not exactly a safe haven when they learn that the killers are on the loose and that the authorities are not protecting them from harm. Reissue. (An MGM film, written by Hossein Amini, directed by John Madden, releasing Fall 2007, starring Diane Lane, Mikcey Rourke, Thomas Jane, Johnny Knoxville, & Rosario Dawson) (Suspense)

Killshot

A prison break in South Florida brings together two different people--federal marshal Karen Sisco and bank robber Jack Foley--and it leads them to the heist of the year in Detroit and a confrontation with brutal criminals specializing in home invasion.

Out of Sight

Seriously crazed killer Clement Mansell, aka the "Oklahoma Wildman, " is back on the Detroit streets--thanks to nifty courtroom moves by his lawyer--and he's feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked Motown judge on a whim. Homicide detective Raymond Cruz is determined to see that the hayseed psycho doesn't slip through a legal loophole the second time.

High Noon in Detroit

City Primeval

The star of JUSTIFIED returns in a stunning new novel from 'the greatest crime writer who ever lived' [Dennis Lehane]. US Marshal Raylan Givens, star of the series JUSTIFIED, and protagonist of RIDING THE RAP, PRONTO and the story 'Fire in the Hole', is back in action, this time with a federal warrant to serve on a dope dealer named Angel Arenas, a man 'born in the U.S. but a hundred percent of him Hispanic'. The state troopers are impressed when the marshal struts into the convict's hotel room without drawing his gun, but Raylan soon finds that Angel's already been the victim of another crime, one that's way bigger than a few pot plants, and clearly the work of a professional ... RAYLAN shows Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, as we follow one of his favourite protagonists through a series of adventures with unlikely villains. As ever, the work is filled with unexpected twists and the most vibrant, crackling dialogue currently available in the English language.

Raylan

War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898--right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine--may not be the smartest thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler's sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad. But he's not dying until he gets the money he's owed from a two-timing American sugar baron. And there's one smart, pistol-hot lady at the rich man's side who could help Ben get everything he's got rightfully coming...even when the whole damn island's going straight to hell.

Cuba Libre

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him -- until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert. He can't ride with them, but they must walk with him or die.

Hombre

Elmore Leonard is 'the man other crime writers call the Boss' DAILY TELEGRAPH. There aren't any textbooks on armed robbery. The only way to learn is through experience, and small-time crooks Frank and Stick are determined to do as much learning on the job as possible. In 1970s' Detroit they embark on a crime spree, holding up liquor stores and supermarkets. They invent their 'Ten Golden Rules for Successful Armed Robbery' and for a short time the cash is rolling in. But then they bend their own rules, and it looks like trouble is heading their way...

Swag

In this superb short fiction collection, Elmore Leonard, “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever” (New York Times Book Review), once again illustrates how the line between the law and the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might think. In the title story, the basis for the hit FX series Justified, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens meets up with an old friend, but they’re now on different sides of the law. Federal marshal Karen Sisco, from Out of Sight, returns in “Karen Makes Out,” once again inadvertently mixing pleasure with business. In “When the Women Come Out to Dance,” Mrs. Mahmood gets more than she bargains for when she conspires with her maid to end her unhappy marriage. These nine stories are the great Elmore Leonard at his vivid, hilarious, and unfailingly human best.

Stories

Fire in the Hole

A collection of short fiction features pieces written over the course of five decades and includes the author's first short story, "The Trail of the Apache."

The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

Dennis Lenahan is a high diver. He drops from an eighty-foot perch into nine feet of water at the Tishomingo Lodge and Casino just along from the Mississippi river. It's no sweat and the girls think he's pretty cool. However, when Dennis witnesses a murder from his perch, life gets shaky. Maybe he's gonna need more than strong nerves to see him through this one. & lt;br/ & gt;Then he meets Robert Taylor, a smooth-talking gangster from Detroit with a passion for the blues and a hustle involving the Dixie Mafia and a Civil War battle re-enactment. Robert takes Dennis under his wing - he needs a man who can stay cool under pressure. But when the guns start firing, Dennis needs to know who's shooting blanks and who's using the real thing . . .

Tishomingo Blues

The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday. Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know that Walter is a member of a spy ring that sends U.S. war production data to Germany and gives shelter to escaped German prisoners of war. But she's tired of telling him jokes he doesn't understand—it's time to get a divorce. Along comes Carl Webster, the hot kid of the Marshals Service. He's looking for Jurgen Schrenk, a former Afrika Korps officer who escaped from a POW camp in Oklahoma. Carl's pretty sure Walter's involved with keeping Schrenk hidden, so Carl gets to know Honey, hoping she'll take him to Walter. Carl then meets Vera Mezwa, the nifty Ukrainian head of the spy ring who's better looking than Mata Hari, and her tricky lover Bohdan with the Buster Brown haircut and a sly way of killing. Honey's a free spirit; she likes the hot kid marshal and doesn't much care that he's married. But all Carl wants is to get Jurgen Schrenk without getting shot. And then there's Otto—the Waffen-SS major who runs away with a nice Jewish girl. It's Elmore Leonard's world—gritty, funny, and full of surprises.

A Novel

Up in Honey's Room

“Almost unbearable suspense. Leonard has produced another winner.” —People A wild ride with “the coolest, hottest writer in America” (Chicago Tribune), Bandits has everything Elmore Leonard fans love: non-stop thrills, unexpected twists and turns, unforgettable characters, and the most razor-sharp dialogue being rapidly exchanged anywhere in the crime fiction genre. Leonard stands tall among the all-time greats (John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain) and towers far above most of the writers currently plying the noir fiction trade. The master who created U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, currently of the hit TV series Justified, is at the top of his game, ensnaring readers in an ingenious plot hatched by a former jewel thief and a radical ex-nun to scam millions from a sadistic Nicaraguan colonel. In fact, the Philadelphia Inquirer says Bandits “may well be his best.” Read it and decide for yourself.

Bandits

They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to deal with the problem—and made sure he had no choice but to gun the fugitive down. Trouble was, Valdez killed an innocent man. And when he asked for justice—and some money for the dead man’s woman—they beat Valdez and tied him to a cross. They were still laughing when Valdez came back. And then they began to die.

Valdez Is Coming

Ex-Secret Service agent Joe LaBrava becomes ensnared in a South Miami Beach scheme involving a redneck former policeman, a Cuban hit man moolighting as a go-go dancer, and a onetime movie queen who lives in a dangerous fantasy world. Reprint.

LaBrava

Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara hit it off in prison, where they were both doing time for grand theft auto. Now that they're out, they're joining forces for one big score. The plan is to kidnap the wife of a wealthy Detroit developer and hold her for ransom. But they didn't figure the lowlife husband wouldn't want his lady back. So it's time for Plan B and the opportunity to make a real killing -- with the unlikely help of a beautiful, ticked-off housewife who's hungry for a large helping of sweet revenge.

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