A01=Elmore Leonard
American crime fiction
Author_Elmore Leonard
bestselling crime novelist
books set in Palm Beach
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crime novels about gambling
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Product details
- ISBN 9780753822418
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2009
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Wicked and irresistible . . . Leonard is a genius' New York Times
Palm Beach playboy Chip Ganz needs money - fast. He has spiralling debts, and his mother's gravy-train has just derailed. So he has a plan: he's going to find somebody rich, and take them hostage. With the help of an ex-con, a psycho gardener and the beautiful psychic Reverend Dawn, he chooses bookmaker Harry Arno as the lucky victim. The trouble is, Harry can scam with the best of them. And that's not the only problem. US Marshal Raylan Givens is sleeping with Harry's ex girlfriend, Joyce, and she wants Harry found...
Elmore Leonard was born in New Orleans in 1925. He wrote forty-five books during his phenomenal career, including the bestsellers MR PARADISE, TISHOMINGO BLUES, BE COOL and THE HOT KID. Many have been made into successful movies, including GET SHORTY with John Travolta, OUT OF SIGHT with George Clooney and RUM PUNCH, which became Tarantino's JACKIE BROWN. He is the recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. He died in 2013 in Detroit.
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