Picket Line and Other Stories

The main story ''Picket Line'' describes a tense stand-off between migrant workers in Texas, police and labour organisers in a brilliantly orchestrated series of arguments and negotiations, with the potential for terrible violence lurking in every exchange. ''Chick Killer'' and ''Ice Man'', set in Florida and California are two riffs on the thing that made Leonard great: his extraordinary ear for creating dialogues of negotiation, where the stakes could not be higher for the loser.<>

About the author

Elmore Leonard (1925—2013) began his long and extraordinary career as a writer of Westerns, most famously a story which was made into the film 3:10 To Yuma. He then became known for his remarkable sequence of crime novels, generally set in Michigan or Florida. A master of funny and threatening dialogue, his influence has been incalculable. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN US and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

Product details

• Authors: Elmore Leonard
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 02.10.2025
• EAN: 9780241755396
• ISBN: 978-0-241-75539-6
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Classics, Classic crime, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary