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Informationen zum Autor Elmore Leonard wrote more than forty books during his long career, including the bestsellers Raylan , Tishomingo Blues , Be Cool , Get Shorty , and Rum Punch , as well as the acclaimed collection When the Women Come Out to Dance , which was a New York Times Notable Book. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight . The short story “Fire in the Hole,” and three books, including Raylan , were the basis for the FX hit show Justified . Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He died in 2013. Klappentext Wealthy industrialist Robbie Daniels has discovered something that gives him even a bigger kick than his palatial homes in Detroit and Palm Beach: homicide . He’s tried it, he likes it, and he’d like to keep doing it—as often as possible—with the help of a really bad ex-cop who quit the force one step away from prison stripes. Motown Detective Bryan Hurd strongly suspects that Daniels has been getting away with murder and figures a little Florida R&R might be an ideal way to keep a close eye on the slippery millionaire reptile. But Daniels has money, power, no fear, and an awesome collection of guns—and Hurd might be getting a little too close to the action. . . . Zusammenfassung “Constant action and top-notch writing.” — New York Times A Palm Beach playboy who amuses himself with murder finds himself on a collision course with a vacationing Motown cop in Elmore Leonard’s Split Images —a gripping and electrifying example of noir gold from “the coolest! hottest writer in America” ( Chicago Tribune ). Split Images is Grand Master Leonard at the top of his game! a bravura example of how exemplary crime fiction is done by a writer who stands tall among the all-time mystery greats: John D. MacDonald! Dashiell Hammett! James M. Cain! et al. The brilliant creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (of TV’s Justified ) now brings us a cast of vivid and unforgettable characters on both sides of the law! in a twisting masterwork of unrelenting suspense that the Washington Post calls! “Brilliant...impressive...superb.” ...
