Elmore Leonard
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Elmore Leonard
Skirt-chasing, orchid-raising Florida judge “Maximum” Bob Gibbs has made a career of oversentencing convicted felons. He’s thrown the book at so many that it’s beginning to look like one of them may be planning to throw it back at him. But assassination isn’t the worst of the judge’s problems. He’s got to get his whacked-out wife Leanne out of Palm Beach—fast. For it seems she’s becoming an embarrassment, what with her multiple personalities and all. So when Bob starts playing footsie with an alligator poacher in a scam to scare his wife into divorce, and a…
Elmore Leonard
Joe LaBrava first fell in love in a darkened movie theater when he was twelve—with a gorgeous femme fatale up on the screen. Now the one-time Secret Service agent-turned-photographer is finally meeting his dream woman in the flesh, albeit in a rundown Miami crisis center. When she’s cleaned up and sober, though, former movie queen Jean Shaw still makes LaBrava’s heart race. And now she’s being terrorized by a redneck thug and his slimy marielito partner, which gives Joe a golden opportunity to play the hero. But the lady’s predicament is starting to…
Elmore Leonard
In a novel filled with his signatures—nerve-shattering suspense, crackling dialogue, scathing wit—Elmore Leonard shows once again why he sets the standard against which all other crime novels are measured. In Get Shorty, he takes a mobster to Hollywood, where the women are gorgeous, the men are corrupt, and making it big isn’t all that different from making your bones: you gotta know who to pitch, who to hit, and how to knock ‘em dead.
Elmore Leonard
Jack Foley was busting out of Florida’s Glades Prison when he ran head-on into Karen Sisco with a shotgun. Suddenly the world-class gentleman felon was sharing a cramped car trunk with a disarmed federal marshal—whose Chanel suit cost more than the take from Foley’s last bank job—and the chemistry was working overtime. Here’s a lady Jack could fall for in a big way, if she weren’t a dedicated representative of the law that he breaks for a living. And as soon as she escapes, he’s already missing her. But there are some seriously bad men and a major score waiting…
