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1) Get Shorty
Author
Series
Chili Palmer volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, pursues a mark, who's behind in payments, to Las Vegas and then to Hollywood where Harry Zimm has gambled away the $200,000 earmarked for his next production.
2) Killshot
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two witnesses to a crime are removed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in the Federal Witness Security Program--no picnic, even though they are innocent victims rather than plea-bargaining mobsters.
3) LaBrava
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
283 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Joe LaBrava is an ex--Secret Service agent who gets mixed up in a South Miami Beach scam involving a redneck former cop, a Cuban hit man who moonlights as a go-go dancer, and a onetime movie queen whose world is part make-believe, part deadly dangerous. This is vintage Leonard: fast-moving, pitch-perfect, and utterly, authentically irresistible"--Page 4 of cover.
4) Djibouti
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a modern-day pirate story, ambitious documentary filmmaker Dara Barr and her right-hand man, Xavier LeBo, a seventy-two-year-old African American seafarer, get more than they bargained for on the Horn of Africa.
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bandits assembles an unlikely crew: an ex-cop, an ex-con, and an ex-nun. They've got their eyes on several million bucks intended for the Contras; with their unique set of skills and their crazily clever plan, they're sure to make out like bandits -- if they live so long
6) Raylan
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, "If I have to pull my gun I'll shoot to kill." Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows there's big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns out...
7) Touch
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
viii, 245 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Touch is sensational suspense from the master of crime fiction, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. A Michigan woman was blind and now she can see, after being touched by a young man who calls himself Juvenal. Maybe it was just coincidence, but Bill Hill-who used to run the spectacular Uni-Faith Ministry in Dalton, Georgia, and now sells RVs-can see dollar signs when he looks at this kid with the magic 'touch.' The trouble is that others...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book features the return of Carl Webster, the mythic marshal who starred in The Hot Kid (2005). It's the waning months of World War II, and Carl, no longer on the trail of Dust Bowl bank robbers, is tracking down a couple of escaped German POWs. . .
9) Pagan babies
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Is Terry Dunn really a priest? He doesn't always appear to act like one. He comes home to Detroit, after witnessing a tragedy in Rwanda and runs into Debbie who's doing standup at a comedy club. Terry and Debie hit it off; they have the same sense of humor and similar goals in that both are out to raise money.
10) Be cool
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chili Palmer's follow-up to his smash hit film Get Leo bombed, and in Hollywood, you're considered only as hot as your last project. Once again outside the system, Chili is exploring an idea for his third film by lunching with a former "associate" from his Brooklyn days who's now a record label executive. When lunch begins with iced tea and ends in a mob hit, Chili soon finds himself in an unlikely alliance with one of the LAPD's finest, Detective...
11) Rum punch
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jackie Burke tries to stay out of jail by setting her partner up with the Feds and still keep the money from selling illegal guns.
12) Road dogs
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gentleman/banker-robber Jack Foley is back in prison doing a thirty-year sentence after a week-long escape. Brought in by Karen Sisco, US marshall, who got her man after being abducted with the escapees, Jack and Karen have a thing for each other, and Karen arrests him only after a meaningful 'time'out' together. Jack is resigning himself to doing time, lots of it, and he seems to have a friendly and easy control over the hardened criminals he is...
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