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The Switch
By (Author) Elmore Leonard
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
9th September 2025
5th June 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Classic fiction: general and literary
Paperback
208
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 15mm
200g
A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore Leonard Mickey is bored and angry with her life as a housewife in suburban Detroit, trapped with her dreary, golf-obsessed husband. Then she is kidnapped by a deeply unimpressive criminal gang who want to trade her for a huge ransom from her-as it turns out-crooked husband. But what if she doesn't really mind being kidnapped
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 *
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.