
Switch e-bog
97,26 DKK
(inkl. moms 121,58 DKK)
My favorite Leonard book.He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew better ears for dialogue. Dallas Morning NewsThe best writer of crime fiction alive. NewsweekDangerously eccentric characters, razor-sharp black humor, brilliant dialog, and suspense all rolled into one tight packagethats The Switch, Elmore Leonards classic ...
E-bog
97,26 DKK
Forlag
Mariner Books
Udgivet
13 oktober 2009
Længde
288 sider
Genrer
Fiction: general and literary
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780061829963
My favorite Leonard book.He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew better ears for dialogue. Dallas Morning NewsThe best writer of crime fiction alive. NewsweekDangerously eccentric characters, razor-sharp black humor, brilliant dialog, and suspense all rolled into one tight packagethats The Switch, Elmore Leonards classic tale of a kidnapping gone wrongor terribly right, depending on how you look at it. The Grand Master whom the New York Times Book Review calls, the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever, has written a wry and twisting tale that any of the other all-time greatsDashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, John D. MacDonald, James M. Cain, Robert Parkerevery noir author who ever walked a detective, cop, or criminal into a shadowy alleywould be thrilled to call their own. Leonard, the man who has given us U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (currently starring in TVs Justified) is at his storytelling best, as a spurned wife decides to take a rightfuland profitablerevenge on her deceiving hubby by teaming up with the two thugs he hired to abduct her.