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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.
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Oct 1, 1993 · Kirkus Prize winner. National Book Award Finalist. Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.
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Apr 12, 2024 · Apr 12, 2024. Get ready for an exciting journey through the works of Elmore Leonard, a beloved master of American literature. In this book roundup article, we’ll be diving into a selection of...
About Elmore Leonard: Four Later Novels (LOA #280) The definitive edition of an American master of crime fiction culminates with four modern classics. In Get Shorty, a Miami loan shark with an idea for a movie finds a way to break into Hollywood as a producer, the perfect setup for Elmore Leonard’s brilliantly satiric take on an industry he ...
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May 8, 2007 · From Publishers Weekly. Set in the waning days of WWII, bestseller Leonard's disappointing 40th novel finds gunslinging U.S. marshal Carl Webster, introduced in 2005's The Hot Kid, on the trail of Jurgen Schrenk and Otto Penzler, German POWs escaped from their Okmulgee, Okla., detention camp.
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Elmore Leonard wrote forty-five novels and nearly as many western and crime short stories across his highly successful career that spanned more than six decades. Some of his bestsellers include Road Dogs, Up in Honey’s Room, The Hot Kid, Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, and the critically acclaimed collection of short stories Fire in the Hole.
My annual dive into the pulp fiction of Elmore Leonard begins with The Switch, the 1978 novel that introduced small time crooks Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara and globetrotting pothead Melanie Ralston who sticks her big toe into the men's business.
