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The crime writer’s crime writer, King of all he surveys

Cool talk, hot action … it’s impossible not to love Elmore Leonard

The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever

Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today

Leonard provides the fizziest and cleverest dialogue in crime fiction. A total delight

He’s set the standard against which all other crime novels are measured

The man other crime writers call the Boss

Not just a good storyteller, but also an important novelist

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?

A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore Leonard 
 
Ordell and Louis have picked the wrong woman to kidnap… 
 
They thought it would be easy money. Snatch the wife of a rich Detroit businessman and demand a nice big ransom. What they didn’t reckon on was the fact that her husband has a secret mistress and doesn’t want his wife back at all. Or that their victim, Margaret ‘Mickey’ Dawson, is more than a little tired of playing the perfect housewife. So tired, in fact, that she’s out for revenge, and willing to turn the tables on everyone to get it.

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.

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The crime writer’s crime writer, King of all he surveys

Cool talk, hot action … it’s impossible not to love Elmore Leonard

The hottest thriller writer in the US

The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever

Leonard is a genius

Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today

Leonard provides the fizziest and cleverest dialogue in crime fiction. A total delight

He’s set the standard against which all other crime novels are measured

The man other crime writers call the Boss

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