Road Dogs: A Suspenseful Mystery - Softcover

Leonard, Elmore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061985708 ISBN 13: 9780061985706

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2010

Synopsis

"Road Dogs is terrific, and Elmore Leonard is in a class of one."
--Dennis Lehane, author of Shutter Island and Mystic River

"You know from the first sentence that you're in the hands of the original Daddy Cool....This one'll kill you."
--Stephen King

Elmore Leonard is eternal. In Road Dogs, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award winner and "America's greatest crime master" (Newsweek) brings back three of his favorite characters--Jack Foley from Out of Sight, Cundo Rey from La Brava, and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap--for a twisting, explosive, always surprising masterwork of crime fiction the San Francisco Chronicle calls, "a sly, violent, funny and superbly written story of friendship, greed, and betrayal."

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Review:

the wildly witty plot includes a multiplicity of low-life characters, double crosses, scams, betrayals and dead bodies. Above all, Leonard provides the fizziest and cleverest dialogue in crime fiction. A total delight. (MARCEL BERLINS THE TIMES 21.11.09)

Like Out of Sight? You'll love this... a typically labryinthine tale featuring three of his best jive-talking ex-cons. Lets hope George Clooney reads it and wants to make another Jack Foley film. (GQ - January 2010 issue)

There is little sign of Leonard losing his ear for dialogue. (TLS - 18.12.09)

proof, if any were needed, that being 83 years old has not diminished Elmore Leonard's talents as one of America's foremost writers... one of Leonard's most enjoyable romps to date... deserves to be read and re-read. (SUNDAY EXPRESS - 10.01.10)

Leonard's crime stories are packed with players who deserve curtain calls... Leonard, now 83, still writes with high style, great energy, unflappable cool and a jubilant love of the game. (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY - 01.11.09)

a cause for celebration... a hugely entertaining read... it is a testament to Leonard's skills that he manages to make each of his characters interesting and rounded... it is Leonard's snappy dialogue that lifts his tale above other run of the mill crime capers. (SUNDAY HERALD 15.11.09)

No-one writes crime novels like Hollywood favourite Elmore Leonard, and he has returned with a typical tale of colourful hoodlums on the hunt for another scam.... Great dialogue, great characters: 84-year-old Leonard, releasing his 47th novel, never fails to thrill. (9/10 EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS 28.11.09)

there's no doubt this is vintage Leonard... great dialogue. (IRISH NEWS 14.11.09)

about the varying degrees of truth and baloney in relationships. Sometimes the truth or baloney is lethal. Road Dogs is droll, exciting and underlying its material of sex, violence and money, and beyond its cast of cons and thugs and movie stars - asks interesting questions. (THE SCOTSMAN - 28.22.09)

Book Description:

The legendary NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author returns with three of his favourite characters, each one out to win, in a fast-moving plot that's one of his best.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061985708
• ISBN 13: 9780061985706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288