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Joe LaBrava, ex-secret service agent turned photographer, meets a former movie star who he admired in a Miami crisis center. She is being terrorized by thugs, giving him a chance to play the hero.
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Classical in form, resolved, grave and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Arbor House
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- Russian, Spanish, dan, English
- ISBN
- 9780061185571
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“"HE'S BEEN TAKING PICTURES three years, look at the work," Maurice said.”
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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