- Illegal arms transfers, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Arms control
Ordell "Whitebread" Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie Burke couriers Ordell's profits from Freeport to Miami. But the feds are on to Jackie -- and now the aging, but still hot, flight attendant will have to do prison time or play ball, which makes her a prime "loose end" that Ordell needs to tie up permanently.
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Classical in form, contemporary, cool and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 327
- Publisher
- G.K. Hall, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Delacorte Press
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- Japanese, Italian, tur, French
- ISBN
- 9788440644572
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“Sunday morning, Ordell took Louis to watch the white-power demonstration in downtown Palm Beach.”
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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