Authors: Elmore Leonard
ISBN-13: 9780060512248, ISBN-10: 0060512245
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: Reissue
After 30 years writing westerns and crime novels, Elmore Leonard finally started to get somewhere. "Author Discovered After 23 Books," The New York Times said in 1983, referring to his Edgar Award-winning novel LaBrava. Since then, Leonard's tack-sharp dialogue and comic underworld characters have been drawing accolades and an ever growing base of fans.
Ironworker Wayne Colson and his spirited wife Carmen are witnesses to a shakedown scamwitnesses who must be eliminatedin one of Elmore Leonard's all-time great novels. Abridged. 3 CDs.
Leonard pushes the suspense to the edge of endurance.