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Elmore Leonard
A new edition of Elmore Leonard’s classic novel Get Shorty. Now a TV series starring Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano.
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Classic Elmore Leonard - a killer is on the loose in a gripping thriller set in Detroit.
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OUT OF SIGHT was made into the highly-acclaimed movie starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez.
From the bestselling author of GET SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN, THE SWITCH has now been brought to the big screen as LIFE OF CRIME, starring Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins and…
A nail-biting, tough-talking classic western from the author of GET SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN.
No one has ever escaped the brutal convict labor camp at Five Shadows–but Corey Bowen is ready to die trying. Beaten nearly to death after his last escape attempt, Corey…
First in the New York Times bestselling author’s classic Western series. Part-time constable Robert Valdez was sent to deal with a man holed up in a shack with a gun–and…
The New York Times bestselling author of Be Cool and Get Shorty
James E Devlin
This American author of popular crime novels ( Freaky Deaky, Rum Punch ) often adapted for film, is well known for his use of local color and his ear for…
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A bull’s-eye of a short fiction collection that spans the master’s career.
For aspiring writers and lovers of the written word, this concise guide breaks down the writing process with simplicity and clarity. From adjectives and exclamation points to dialect, Leonard explains…
No one is more evocative of the dusty, gutsy hey-day of the American West than Elmore Leonard. This first-ever compilation of Leonard’s thirty Western tales will thrill lovers of the…
Charles J. Rzepka (Boston University)
Rzepka draws on more than twelve hours of personal interviews with Leonard and applies what he learned to his close analysis of the writer’s long life and prodigious output: 45…
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For three years Al Rosen has lived in Israel, hiding from the mobsters he testified against. But when a lone gunman in a sleek BMW opens fire on Al in…
America’s premier storyteller presents seven classic tales of the Old West in this entry of his four-book collection.
Originally published in 1969, this classic revolves around a bored young couple that looks for thrills in bleak northern Michigan. Their scheme to grab a $50,000 payroll takes an evil…
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.
A collection of fifteen stories, eleven of which have never been previously published, from the early career of bestselling American master Elmore Leonard.
Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore…
Ice cool former loan shark Chili Palmer returns in the sequel to GET SHORTY - and this time he’s taking on LA’s music industry in a tale of drama, jealousy…
German-born Walter Schoen, now living in Detroit, is a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler. Along comes Carl Webster, the hot kid of the Marshal’s Service, looking for a German officer…
Carl Webster, the gunslinging U.S. Marshal from The Hot Kid and Up in Honey’s Room, serves as the centerpiece of two stories and one novella, in this never-before-published-in-the-U.S. collection from…
Driven by terrific characters and superb writing, these short pieces (including two novella-length works) are Elmore Leonard at his economical best.
Hot cars, gun molls, speakeasies, bank robbers and murder are the game in this powerfully entertaining story from Elmore Leonard, the undisputed master of the crime novel. Set in Oklahoma…
New York Times -bestselling author Leonard brings his trademark style and wit to this new novel featuring U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, hero of the hit FX series Justified.
This classic tale of betrayal, justice, and frontier law is the first novel written by bestselling author Elmore Leonard. Leonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever. –…
Wealthy cattle baron Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a kid with a tin badge. So when Sundeen’s men drag two prisoners from Frye’s jail and hang…
Another of Leonard’s classic westerns is available once again. Brendan Early and Dana Moon track renegade Apaches together and gun down scalp hunters, becoming legends in the Arizona Territory. But…
Hot cars, gun molls, speakeasies, bank robbers and murder are the game in this powerfully entertaining story set in Oklahoma during the 1930s and introduces Carl Webster, one of the…
Seven classic tales of the Old West by New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard are featured in this volume–part of a four-book paperback collection of Leonard’s Western short stories…
Dara Barr, a documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game, but now she’s looking for an even bigger challenge. So she and her right-hand-man–a six-foot-six, 72-year-old, African-American man…
Frank Renda is scared stiff. He’s losing his touch. It used to be easier: get a name, study the guy, walk up to him, pull the trigger. Simple. But now…
Florida motel owner George Moran isn’t looking for trouble while in the Dominican Republic, but it finds him when he winds up in bed with the wife of a drug-dealing…
Originally published: New York: Bantam Books, c1978.
Dual Meaders, Doc Taulbee, and their gang of city slickers set out to steal thousands of dollars worth of homemade Kentucky Whiskey from Son Martin, a hell-raising country boy, during…
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A young sheriff must stand up to a wealthy cattle baron and his hired men.
Gun molls, speakeasies, bank robbers and murder … Another fantastic thriller from the grandmaster of US crime fiction.
The Wild West comes alive in the hands of Elmore Leonard, America’s greatest storyteller.
A lean and mean thriller about one man and the Mob from ‘the crime laureate’ INDEPENDENT.
Just when Al Rosen thinks he’s safe from the mob, he goes and plays the Good Samaritan - with devastating consequences…
Joe LaBrava gets involved when his friend Maury has trouble with an ex-film star - the one Joe fell for when he was 12. But the low-grade hustlers would need…
Ex-cons, armed robberies and scams in Miami - another classic crime thriller from the masterful Elmore Leonard.
A gripping mob thriller from the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of BE COOL and GET SHORTY.
The beguiling story of a man, a woman and a nasty crime, from ‘the hottest thriller writer in the US’ [Time].
