Maximum Bob

Leonard, Elmore

ISBN 10: 0385301421 / ISBN 13: 9780385301428

Published by Delacorte Press, 1991

About this Item

First printing with number line to 1. Signed by Elmore Leonard at the title page. 295 pages. Black quarter-cloth and grey papered boards with gold titles, very good with light fading to top and bottom edges, lightly bumped spine head. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar with slight scuffing to back, lightly bumped spine head. Interior bright, unmarked. Seller Inventory # BBS-2017267

Bibliographic Details

Title: Maximum Bob

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Kathy Baker, a young probation officer, finds herself caught in the middle when someone in Palm Beach County, Florida, threatens the life of bigoted redneck judge "Maximum Bob" Briggs

From the Inside Flap:

rld of Elmore Leonard. The setting is Palm Beach County, Florida, where someone places a live ten-foot alligator in the backyard of the bigoted, redneck judge Bob Gibbs--known to all as Maximum Bob--and his wife, Leanne, a former Weeki Wachee mermaid. Not long after that, shots are fired into the judge's house. It doesn't take much figuring to conclude that someone's out to get him and that malefactor isn't going to stop at the second try. There's a long list of suspects: Dale Crowe, who just got an outrageous sentence for a minor crime; his uncle Elvin, a killer on parole, raring to go again; Dr. Tommy Vasco, the drugged out former medical doctor; his equally bizarre friend, Hector; and Dicky Campau, who makes a living poaching alligators. And there are others.



Somehow Kathy Baker, a nifty young probation officer, has got herself in the middle of all this. She's got to avoid two seducers--the judge and a homicidal maniac--and work with a young police officer who interests h