Price: $12.83
(as of Mar 20, 2025 18:43:04 UTC – Details)
“Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today.”
—New York Times Book Review
The revered New York Times bestselling author, recognized as “America’s greatest crime writer” (Newsweek), brings back U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the mesmerizing hero of Pronto, Riding the Rap, and the hit FX series Justified.
With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross $300,000, but that’s chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get you—especially when it’s sold off piece by piece.
So when Dickie and Coover Crowe, dope-dealing brothers known for sampling their own supply, decide to branch out into the body business, it’s up to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens to stop them. But Raylan isn’t your average marshal; he’s the laconic, Stetson-wearing, fast-drawing lawman who juggles dozens of cases at a time and always shoots to kill. But by the time Raylan finds out who’s making the cuts, he’s lying naked in a bathtub, with Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys.
The bad guys are mostly gals this time around: Layla, the nurse who collects kidneys and sells them for ten grand a piece; Carol Conlan, a hard-charging coal-mine executive not above ordering a cohort to shoot point-blank a man who’s standing in her way; and Jackie Nevada, a beautiful sometime college student who can outplay anyone at the poker table and who suddenly finds herself being tracked by a handsome U.S. marshal.
Dark and droll, Raylan is pure Elmore Leonard—a page-turner filled with the sparkling dialogue and sly suspense that are the hallmarks of this modern master.
ASIN : B005GFQ0IK
Publisher : Mariner Books; Media tie-in edition (January 17, 2012)
Publication date : January 17, 2012
Language : English
File size : 770 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 277 pages
Customers say
Customers find the book engaging and enjoyable to read. They appreciate the well-developed characters and dialogue that reveals their personalities. The writing quality is praised as good and efficient. Readers describe the book as fast-paced and exciting, with an easy flow of dialogue. Many find the story interesting and entertaining, with an intriguing plot that draws attention. However, opinions differ on whether the book is faithful to the TV series or not.
There are no reviews yet.