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Elmore Leonard

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Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard wrote more than 40 books during his highly successful writing career, including the bestsellers ROAD DOGS, UP IN HONEY'S ROOM, THE HOT KID, MR. PARADISE, TISHOMINGO BLUES, and the critically acclaimed collection of short stories WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE. Many of his books were made into movies, including GET SHORTY, OUT OF SIGHT and BE COOL. "Justified," the hit series from FX, is based on Leonard’s character Raylan Givens, who appears in RIDING THE RAP, PRONTO, the short story “Fire in the Hole,” and RAYLAN. Leonard was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA, and the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America. He passed away on August 20, 2013 at the age of 87 from complications of a stroke.

Elmore Leonard

Books by Elmore Leonard

by Elmore Leonard - Fiction, Short Stories

The stories in CHARLIE MARTZ AND OTHER STORIES, produced early in Elmore Leonard’s career, reveal a writer in transition. Here, he explores new voices and locations --- from the bars of small-town New Mexico and Michigan to a film set in Hollywood, a hotel in Southern Spain, even a military base in Kuala Lumpur. They also introduce us to classic Leonard characters, some of whom recur throughout the collection, such as aging lawman Charlie Martz and weary former matador Eladio Montoya.

by Elmore Leonard - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Dangerously eccentric characters, razor-sharp black humor, brilliant dialog, and suspense all rolled into one tight package—that’s The Switch, Elmore Leonard’s classic tale of a kidnapping gone wrong…or terribly right, depending on how you look at it. 

by Elmore Leonard - Fiction, Mystery, Suspense

U.S. Marshal Raylan Leonard, a dedicated, if somewhat trigger-happy lawman, finds himself in Harlan County, Kentucky, where the drug-dealing Crowe brothers are branching out into the human body parts business. 

by Elmore Leonard - Fiction, Thriller

In search of bigger challenges, documentary filmmaker Dara Barr arrives in Djibouti with her right-hand man, six-foot-six, 72-year-old African American seafarer Xavier LeBo, to film modern-day pirates hijacking merchant ships. But almost no one here is who he claims to be.