Elmore Leonard

Loan shark Chili Palmer didn't say anything when Ray Bones stole his leather jacket from Vesuvio's in Miami. He just went to Ray's house, broke his nose, took the jacket, and left. Twelve years later, on account of his boss getting whacked, Chili finds himself working for Bones and ordered to collect on a bad debt …

Punch al rum è un romanzo noir del 1992 dello scrittore statunitense Elmore Leonard. Dall'opera è stato tratto il film Jackie Brown del 1997, per la regia di Quentin Tarantino. Il libro è stato pubblicato in Italia per la prima volta nel 1998 come Jackie Brown, traendo il titolo dall'omonimo film e successivamente …

Out of Sight è un romanzo noir dello scrittore statunitense Elmore Leonard del 1996, edito in Italia nel 1999 con il titolo Fuori dal gioco, successivamente ripubblicato nel 2010 con lo stesso titolo originale inglese. Come abitudine dello scrittore l'opera vede come comprimari alcuni personaggi già apparsi o che …

Carlos Webster was fifteen in the fall of 1921 the first time he came face-to-face with a nationally known criminal. A few weeks later, he killed his first man—a cattle thief who was rustling his dad's stock. Now Carlos, called Carl, is the hot kid of the U.S. Marshals Service, one of the elite manhunters currently …

Tishomingo Blues is a 2002 novel by Elmore Leonard, set in Mississippi, about two fledgling allies, the local Dixie Mafia, and a high-stakes Civil War re-enactment. It happens to be Leonard's favorite of the books he has written. Plans to adapt the book as a movie directed by Don Cheadle have been scrapped. The title …

Killshot, the 1989 novel by author Elmore Leonard, tells the story of a married couple who find themselves in Cape Girardeau, Missouri while on the run from a pair of hitmen.

Cuba Libre is a 1998 historical novel written by Elmore Leonard. Unlike most of Leonard's novels, which take place in the modern day, the novel takes place in 1898, immediately before the outbreak of the Spanish–American War.

“Wonderfully wicked…a nonstop, pedal-to-the-metal romp.” —Chicago TribuneOver-the-hill former counter-culture SDS revolutionaries decide to turn bomb-making—and detonating—from a political statement to a profitable enterprise in the master Elmore Leonard’s electrifying and explosively funny thriller Freaky Deaky. The …