Synopses & Reviews
When Dickie and Coover Crowe, dope-dealing brothers known for sampling their own supply, decide to branch out into the body business, it's up to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens to stop them. But Raylan isn't your average marshal; he's the laconic, Stetson-wearing, fast-drawing lawman who juggles dozens of cases at a time and always shoots to kill. But by the time Raylan finds out who's making the cuts, he's lying naked in a bathtub, with Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys.
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“A punchy mix of crime and Kentucky coal-mine sociology....It's one of Leonard's best thrillers in years.” Entertainment Weekly
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“With a practiced ease and the craft of more than half a century of novelistic composition, Leonard works like the Picasso of crime fiction...Raylan is as close as it gets to creating the complete illusion of unmediated entertainment on the page.” San Francisco Chronicle
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“In addition to kinetic storytelling and spot-on dialogue, Leonard has a cool wit....Characters roll from scene to scene, urged on by self-interest and greed, bumping against one another and building up steam until they're smashing together in orgies of violence.” New York Times Book Review
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“Raylan is Leonard's best of the 21st century good stuff from first page to last.” Los Angeles Times Book Review
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“[Leonard's] finely honed sentences can sound as flinty/poetic as Hemingway or as hard-boiled as Raymond Chandler. His ear for the way people talk or should is peerless.” Detroit News
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“There is no greater writer of crime fiction than Elmore Leonard, and no one who has more resplendent energy....Like pretty well every Leonard novel, Raylan is a delight.” The Guardian (UK)
Synopsis
Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today.
New York Times Book Review
With more than forty novels to his credit and still going strong, the legendary Elmore Leonard has well earned the title, America s greatest crime writer (Newsweek). And U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Pronto, Riding the Rap, Fire in the Hole) is one of Leonard s most popular creations, thanks in part to the phenomenal success of the hit TV series Justified. Leonard s Raylan shines a spotlight once again on the dedicated, if somewhat trigger-happy lawman, this time in his familiar but not particularly cozy milieu of Harlan County, Kentucky, where the drug dealing Crowe brothers are branching out into the human body parts business. Suspenseful, darkly wry and riveting, and crackling with Leonard s trademark electric dialogue, Raylan is prime Grand Master Leonard as you have always loved him and always will.
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About the Author
Elmore Leonard wrote forty-five novels and nearly as many western and crime short stories across his highly successful career that spanned more than six decades. Some of his bestsellers include Road Dogs, Up in Honey's Room, The Hot Kid, Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, and the critically acclaimed collection of short stories Fire in the Hole. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty, Out of Sight, and Rum Punch, which became Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown. Justified, the hit series from FX, is based on Leonard's character Raylan Givens, who appears in Riding the Rap, Pronto, Raylan and the short story “Fire in the Hole”. He was a recipient of the National Book Foundations 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 was known to many as the "Dickens of Detroit" and was a long-time resident of the Detroit area.