Frank Muller
7) The brethren
Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse...
10) The runaway jury
12) Bandits
13) Cat chaser
16) City Primeval
THE INSPIRATION FOR JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL ON FX
"As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you'll find....The action never stops, the language sings and stings." —Washington Post
The City Primeval in Elmore Leonard's relentlessly gripping classic noir is Detroit, the author's much-maligned hometown and the setting for many of the Grand Master's acclaimed crime novels. The "Alexander the Great
...17) Gold Coast
"Lean, mean, darkly funny."
—Boston Globe
"A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense."
—Dallas Morning News
"Elmore Leonard may be the greatest crime novelist in the world," declares the Seattle Times, and truer words have never been written. Just follow the Grand Master of mystery and suspense to Florida's Gold Coast and you'll quickly discover that it's so. In this classic Elmore Leonard thriller,
...18) Stick
"A slam-bang, no-bull action thriller...and nobody but nobody writes better dialogue." —New York Daily News
It's an established fact: Elmore Leonard is "the uncontested master of the crime thriller" (Washington Post ) who "does crime fiction better than anyone" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), and nowhere is this more obvious than in the pages of Stick.
After serving time for armed robbery, Ernest "Stick"
...19) Swag
The smallest of small-time criminals, Ernest Stickley Jr. figures his luck's about to change when Detroit used car salesman Frank Ryan catches him trying to boost a ride from Ryan's lot. Frank's got some surefire schemes for getting rich quick—all of them involving guns—and all Stickley has to do is follow "Ryan's Rules" to share the wealth. But sometimes rules need to be bent, maybe even broken, if one is to succeed in the world of
...20) Riding the rap
"Wicked and irresistible....Elmore Leonard is a literary genius."
—New York Times Book Review
Before U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens began electrifying TV viewers across America (in the hit series Justified), he "starred" in Elmore Leonard's Riding the Rap—an explosive, twisty tale of a brazen Florida kidnap caper gone outrageously wrong. Chock full of wildly eccentric and deliciously criminal characters—including a psycho
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