“Wonderful…razor-sharp.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Excellent….A plot and a chase as good as anything he has ever written.” —Bergan Record
In Elmore Leonard’s The Hunted, “crime fiction’s greatest living practitioner” (Washington Post) carries the action far from his usual Detroit, Miami, and Los Angeles milieus, all the way to the Middle East. There no lack of excitement and suspense—and the trademark Leonard dialogue—in this superior tale of a fugitive hiding under the radar in Israel, until a well-publicized Good Samaritan act attracts the unwanted attention of well-armed Motown mobsters who are now coming to get him. The author who introduced the world to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (in his novels Pronto and Riding the Rap, before the lawman became the star of the hit TV drama Justified), the Grand Master shows why the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel calls him “the all-time king of the whack job crime novelists,” and goes on to say that “Elmore Leonard tops them all”…including John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Robert B. Parker, and quite possibly every major mystery writer the U.S. has ever produced.
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"At his best, Elmore Leonard is the master of a tight plot and of stylized dialogue. He hasn't been at his best for the last ten years, but his early stuff is a delight. This is one of my favorites. " — Nina (4 out of 5 stars)
"At his best, Elmore Leonard is the master of a tight plot and of stylized dialogue. He hasn't been at his best for the last ten years, but his early stuff is a delight. This is one of my favorites. "
“Action writing at its best.”
“Crime fiction’s greatest living practitioner.”
“Wonderful…Razor sharp.”
“Excellent…A plot and a chase as good as anything he has ever written.”
" a perfectly average perfectly forgetable short sharp thriller. train journey fodder "
" sliding into an elmore leonard phase. wish i could put up the awesomely cheesy bookcovers of the $1 paperbacks i'm reading tho. "
" One of my all time favorite of Elmore Leonard's novels. "
" An early Leonard novel, that had that feel of an old espionage tale. My first Leonard novel, won't be my last. "
" Very good until the end, Rather a weak finish. "
" A straightforward thriller. Not bad but I don't read a lot of these kinds of books. I like a more fantasy element. "
" Oldschool 1977 Elmore Leonard pulp about another classically shady protagonist, hiding out in Israel. "
" Like most of his books and enjoyable and easy read, pure entertainment. "
" I loved the chracterisations, and the opening was sharp and pacy. However I felt the flow disappeared about half way through, and the denouement was disappointing, with a rushed and incomplete feeling to it. "
" Strange, oddly zen book by Leonard, set in Isreal. Dozens of characters, no real focus, swirls all over the place... and yet always compelling. "
" elmore in Israel; or the Holy Land = Detroit "
" Fun, quick read. As promised by the friend who gave me the book, Leonard has an amazing hear for dialogue, maybe the best in fiction. "
Elmore Leonard (1925–2013) wrote more than fifty books during his highly successful career, including the bestsellers Djibouti, Road Dogs, Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, and the critically acclaimed collection of short stories, When the Women Come Out to Dance. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty, Out of Sight, and Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. He was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America.
Mark Hammer has had long and distinguished career in the theater. After earning an undergraduate degree from Stanford University, he completed an MFA degree at Catholic University. For twenty-three years after that, he served on the drama faculty at that university and as co-chairman of its MFA acting program. For the last sixteen of those years, he was also a member of the resident acting company at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage. There, he had significant roles in both classic and contemporary dramas. He was twice nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for his performances in Cloud Nine and The Wild Duck. He has also appeared in several Broadway plays. Hammer was proud to be chosen to narrate the opening film of the permanent exhibit for the National Holocaust Museum.
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