- Fiction, Mystery, Ex-convicts, Fiction, suspense
In Stick, an ex-con trying to go straight finds himself tempted by a high stakes, sweet-revenge scam ... and targeted by a psycho killer with a score to settle.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Arbor House, Avon, Avon Books
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060768539
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“STICK SAID HE WASN'T GOING if they had to pick up anything.”
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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