Riding the Rap Audiobook

Quotes

• “Riding the Rap is the work of an old master—it’s taut, fierce and mesmerizing.”

  — Stephen Hunter, New York Times bestselling author of Dead Zero

• “As well as a master storyteller, Leonard is one of our funniest writers, and for decades has richly dramatized elements of our culture. Riding the Rap is wonderful.”

  — Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours

• “Tart, hip, and funny…As well as inimitable nutball characters and that unmistakable dialogue, Riding the Rap is shot through with sly, mordant street wisdom.”

  — Chicago Sun-Times

• “As always, Leonard’s cinematic grasp of scene and setting, his ability to arouse within us a helpless sympathy for even the lowest of his characters, his quirky pacing and plot twists, and his sly humor and artfully oddball prose sear our eyeballs and keep the pages turning.”

  — Miami Herald

• “The contemporary master of American crime fiction…Suffice it to say that while Riding the Rap demonstrates again that Elmore Leonard is no slouch when it comes to pulling together a dandy plot, it is for his dead-on characterizations and pitch-perfect dialogue that we read his books.”

  — Atlanta Journal-Constitution

• “Elmore Leonard has the best ear for dialogue in the crime-writing biz. Under Leonard’s control Riding the Rap glides to a conclusion both violent and funny.” 

  — Playboy