52 Pickup (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage) - Softcover

Leonard, Elmore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241755328 ISBN 13: 9780241755327

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2025

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of GET SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN a thriller spiced with blackmail and revenge

Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell is a self-made man, happily married for over twenty-two years and a pillar of the community. But then he slips - he meets a young 'model' and begins an affair. One night he arrives at his girlfriend's apartment and finds more than he bargained for. Two masked men have caught his misdemeanours on camera and now they want a cool hundred grand. But they've picked the wrong man, because Harry Mitchell doesn't get mad - he gets even.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241755328
• ISBN 13: 9780241755327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240