It must be pretty tough sometimes when you're writing in an over-subscribed arena like crime fiction, to come up with an original story. But Elmore Leonard's 1978 novel feels like it's just that - a non-hackneyed story.
At the centre of the plot is a somewhat bungled and amateurish kidnap of the wife of a corrupt housing developer in Detroit. The criminal two-some who set-up the kidnapped seem totally unprepared - and together with a lunatic neo-Nazi, proceed to make a hash of every stage of this major crime.
But it's the actions of the victims husband that makes the story - his response and the consequences are what turns the tale on it's head.
If I have one criticism - the blurb on the back of my copy gives the entire story away. Why do publishers feel the need to do this? Saying that though, this Phoenix re-print is a nice modern edition, with great artwork. Far better than the cliched detective novel covers you normally get on Leonard's work!
Quentin Tarantino was arrested for shoplifting a copy of Leonard's novel The Switch from a K-Mart in 1979, and years later filmed one Leonard novel (Rum Punch, re-titled Jackie Brown) and has optioned four more. Leonard's many other novels adapted to the big screen include Tishomingo Blues starring Matthew McConaughey and Don Cheadle, Get Shorty with John Travolta, The Big Bounce with Ryan O'Neal and again 25 years later with Owen Wilson, and 3:10 to Yuma, a 1957 western with Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. In November 2004, Leonard was part of the Supreme Court decision Twist v. McFarlane, which allows writers to draw upon real people for the names or lives of the characters they create.
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