A01=Elmore Leonard
Author_Elmore Leonard
bestselling crime novelist
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classic American crime fiction
classic crime thriller
code of honour
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fiction about armed robbery
GET SHORTY
greatest crime writers
HOMBRE
JACKIE BROWN
low-life characters
Miami
Product details
- ISBN 9780753822371
- Weight: 214g
- Dimensions: 132 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2007
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ex-cons, armed robberies and scams in Miami - another classic crime thriller from the masterful Elmore Leonard.
After serving time for armed robbery, Ernest 'Stick' Stickley is back on the outside and trying to stay legit. But it's tough staying straight in a crooked town - and Miami is a pirate's paradise, where investment fat cats and lowlife drug dealers hold hands and dance.
And when a crazed player chooses Stick at random to die for another man's sins, the struggling ex-con is left with no choice but to dive right back into the game. Besides, Stick knows a good thing when he sees it - and a golden opportunity to run a very profitable sweet-revenge scam seems much too tasty to pass up
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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