Road Dogs - A Novel

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 Legendary New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard returns with three of his favorite characters: Jack Foley from Out of Sight , Cundo Rey from LaBrava , and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap . Fresh out of prison, Foley hooks up with Dawn Navarro, the common-law wife of Foley's extremely wealthy friend, Cundo Rey, in a plan to relieve Cundo of his fortune. What's "trust" among friends when money is involved? Zusammenfassung “ Road Dogs is terrific, and Elmore Leonard is in a class of one.” —Dennis Lehane, author of Shutter Island and Mystic River   “You know from the first sentence that you’re in the hands of the original Daddy Cool....This one’ll kill you.” —Stephen King   Elmore Leonard is eternal. In Road Dogs, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award winner and “America’s greatest crime master” ( Newsweek ) brings back three of his favorite characters—Jack Foley from Out of Sight, Cundo Rey from La Brava, and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap— for a twisting, explosive, always surprising masterwork of crime fiction the San Francisco Chronicle calls, “a sly, violent, funny and superbly written story of friendship, greed, and betrayal.”...

Product details

• Authors: Elmore Leonard
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2009
• EAN: 9780061774706
• ISBN: 978-0-06-177470-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Traditional