"Leonard is tops in his field." --New Orleans Times-Picayune
The great Elmore Leonard, "America's pre-eminent crime fiction writer" (Chicago Tribune), takes readers back to Prohibition days in the back hills of Kentucky in a rollicking story of guns, greed, and illegally brewed corn liquor. The Moonshine War is a tale of the chaos that ensues when a gang of city slickers sets out to steal thousands of dollars-worth of homemade whiskey from a hell-raising country boy--who is anything but the easy mark they were expecting. A rediscovered Elmore Leonard...
"Leonard is tops in his field." --New Orleans Times-Picayune
The great Elmore Leonard, "America's pre-eminent crime fiction wr...
"My favorite Leonard book....He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew better ears for dialogue." --Dallas Morning News
"The best writer of crime fiction alive." --Newsweek
Dangerously eccentric characters, razor-sharp black humor, brilliant dialog, and suspense all rolled into one tight package--that's The Switch, Elmore Leonard's classic tale of a kidnapping gone wrong...or terribly right, depending on how you look at it. The Grand Master whom the New York Times...
"My favorite Leonard book....He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew bett...
"Although known for his mysteries, Elmore Leonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever." --USA Today
"A classic....Leonard's writing style is as effortless and enjoyable as watching a good movie." --Portland Oregonian
Grand Master Elmore Leonard is justifiably acknowledged as "the best writer of crime fiction alive" (Newsweek)--and, in fact, one of the very best ever, alongside other all-time greats like John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker. But he has also many acclaimed masterworks of American...
"Although known for his mysteries, Elmore Leonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever." --USA Today
"A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense." --Dallas Morning News
"Elmore Leonard may be the greatest crime novelist in the world," declares the Seattle Times, and truer words have never been written. Just follow the Grand Master of mystery and suspense to Florida's Gold Coast and you'll quickly discover that it's so. In this classic Elmore Leonard thriller, a beautiful mafia widow stands to lose everything her late mob boss husband left her if she succumbs to her desire...
"Lean, mean, darkly funny." --Boston Globe
"A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense." --Dallas Morni...
"Wicked and irresistible....Elmore Leonard is a literary genius." --New York Times Book Review
Before U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens began electrifying TV viewers across America (in the hit series Justified), he "starred" in Elmore Leonard's Riding the Rap--an explosive, twisty tale of a brazen Florida kidnap caper gone outrageously wrong. Chock full of wildly eccentric and deliciously criminal characters--including a psycho enforcer with a green thumb, a Bahamian bad man, and the beautiful, unabashedly greedy psychic Reverend Dawn--Riding the...
"Wicked and irresistible....Elmore Leonard is a literary genius." --New York Times Book Review
"Constant action and top-notch writing." --New York Times
A Palm Beach playboy who amuses himself with murder finds himself on a collision course with a vacationing Motown cop in Elmore Leonard's Split Images--a gripping and electrifying example of noir gold from "the coolest, hottest writer in America" (Chicago Tribune). Split Images is Grand Master Leonard at the top of his game, a bravura example of how exemplary crime fiction is done by a writer who stands tall among the all-time mystery greats: John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James...
"Constant action and top-notch writing." --New York Times
A Palm Beach playboy who amuses himself with murder finds himself on...
"The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever " --New York Times Book Review
When the all-time greats of mystery/noir/crime fiction are mentioned (John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Robert Parker, etc.), Elmore Leonard's name invariably tops the list. A true Leonard classic, The Big Bounce showcases all of the Grand Master's acclaimed skills--twisty plotting, unforgettable characters, dialogue so razor sharp it could draw blood--as he chronicles the misadventures of a larcenous young man in a Michigan resort town who's irresistibly drawn...
"The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever " --New York Times Book Review
"A wild ride through Cuba during the Spanish-American War." --Miami Herald
"Not only his finest novel but one that transcends the limits of its genre and is worthy of being evaluated as literary fiction." --Houston Chronicle
Before Grand Master Elmore Leonard earned his well-deserved reputation as "the best writer of crime fiction alive" (Newsweek), he penned some of the finest western fiction to ever appear in print. (The classics Hombre, Valdez is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma were just a few of his notable works.)...
"A wild ride through Cuba during the Spanish-American War." --Miami Herald
"Not only his finest novel but one that transcends ...
"A little beauty of a story....A hot, fast read with pungent characters." --Los Angeles Times
"A slam-bang, no-bull action thriller...and nobody but nobody writes better dialogue." --New York Daily News
It's an established fact: Elmore Leonard is "the uncontested master of the crime thriller" (Washington Post ) who "does crime fiction better than anyone" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), and nowhere is this more obvious than in the pages of Stick. One of his most acclaimed noir masterworks, it is the story of ex-con Ernest...
"A little beauty of a story....A hot, fast read with pungent characters." --Los Angeles Times
"Splendid...entirely engrossing." --Los Angeles Times
"First-rate...an excellent thriller...well-plotted and smoothly written...crackles with suspense." --Bergan Record
A classic crime novel, Mr. Majestyk is vintage Elmore Leonard--an edgy, dark, fiendishly compelling tale of a quiet man making a whole lot of noise. "The best writer of crime fiction today" (USA Today)--the acclaimed author who brought the world Raylan Givens, the trigger-happy U.S. Marshal who lights up TV screens across America in the hit series...
"Splendid...entirely engrossing." --Los Angeles Times
"First-rate...an excellent thriller...well-plotted and smoothly written.....