- Kidnapping in fiction, Florida in fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction
Debt-ridden Palm Beach playboy Warren "Chip" Ganz takes a rich man hostage. The trouble is he chooses bookmaker Harry Arno -- an expert scammer with a U.S. Marshal on his tail. When everybody's got a gun, someone's gonna get hurt.
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Classical in form, contemporary, cool and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 315
- Publisher
- Isis, Delacorte Press, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780788705106
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“Ocala Police picked up Dale Crowe Junior for weaving, two o'clock in the morning, crossing the center line and having a busted taillight.”
Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. *--Wikipedia*
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