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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. Henry Rollins joined the band Black Flag in 1981. In 1986 he formed the Rollins Band. His publishing company, 2-13-61, has released more than a dozen books, several CDs and DVDs of his own, and the work of others such as Henry Miller, Iggy Pop and Nick Cave. He has performed in several movies and TV shows including Bad Boys II , Heat , and Drew Carey . David Strathairn reads "Welcome to the Monkey House," "Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog," "D.P.," "The Lie," and "Adam". Tom Wopat has starred on television in The Dukes of Hazzard and Cybill and on Broadway in City of Angels , Guys and Dolls and Annie Get Your Gun , which earned him a Tony® nomination. Klappentext From Elmore Leonard, the author who has influenced more writers than anyother, come two thrilling stories of law in the Old West, upheld by the barrel of a six-gun. "Three-ten to Yuma:" Deputy Paul Scallen will earn his one hundred fifty dollars if he can get his prisoner Jim Kidd on the train to Yuma Prison. But the members of Kidd's gang have determined that Scallen won't live long enough to make the Three-Ten to Yuma. "Saint with a Six-Gun:" Bobby Valdez will hang in the morning and young Lyall Quinlan is proud to guard him through the night. But Valdez doesn't seem like a cold-blooded killer and his request for last rites may just set him free ... or get them both killed. Performed by Henry Rollins, these classics of bullets and bad men demonstrate the superb talent for language and gripping narrative that made Elmore Leonard one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Zusammenfassung Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier - with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse! coach! wagon! and rail! and gunmen working both sides of the law! all too eager to end a man's life with a well-placed bullet. The New York Times best-selling grand master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius! with seven classic Western tales of destiny and fatal decision...and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned. ...
