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From America's top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino's hit film JACKIE BROWN An air hostess doing the Caribbean-Florida run, Jackie also uses her job to shift large amounts of hot money. The Feds are closing in on her and the highly dysfunctional arms-dealers she works for are not getting any more functional. It would involve huge risks, but could she perhaps walk away from the whole wreckage, happy and rich

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PRAISE FOR ELMORE LEONARD * - *
The crime writers crime writer, King of all he surveys -- Ian Rankin
Cool talk, hot action its impossible not to love Elmore Leonard * LA Times *
The hottest thriller writer in the US * TIME *
The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever * The New York Times Book Review *
Leonard is a genius * The New York Times *
Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today * The New York Times *
Leonard provides the fizziest and cleverest dialogue in crime fiction. A total delight * The Times *
Hes set the standard against which all other crime novels are measured * The New York Times *
The man other crime writers call the Boss * The Daily Telegraph *

Author Bio

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.