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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.

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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)
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'Road Dogs' unites three familiar characters from Leonard's earlier novels - Jack Foley, Cuando Rey, wealthy conman and Cuban refugee ('LaBrava'), and Dawn Navarro, a beautiful psychic from 'Riding the Rap'. 'Road Dogs' is the story of gentleman/banker-robber Jack Foley, who got caught by a die-pack on one easy robbery. He's back in prison doing a thirty-year sentence after a week-long escape. Foley has been brought in by Karen Sisco, US marshall, who got her man after being abducted with the escapees. Jack and Karen have a thing for each other, and Karen arrests him after a meaningful 'time'out' together. Jack is resigning himself to doing time, lots of it, and he seems to have a friendly and easy control over the hardened criminals he is imprisoned with. This easiness is enhanced in the minds of others by his fame as a bank robber. It is this ease which impresses Cuando Rey, a Cuban refugee and criminal who is doing time for murder. Cuando arranges to have Foley's sentence hugely reduced, but has favours aplenty to ask when they're both released.Cuando's wife, Dawn, is pretending to be saintly all the while (whilst quite the opposite) under the negligent eye of The Monk, a gay accountant similarly in thrall to Cuando.

Foley is freed, and, as he fears, Cuando wants to use him on a job, just as his every move is being scrutinised by FBI detective Lou Adams. In an instant, though, Dawn has seduced him, and she has an agenda all of her own.

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  • Publication date2009
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  • ISBN 13 9780297856702
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