Autor Elmore Leonard
Extortion and corruption in seedy South Florida, by the master of American crimeJoe LaBrava has an eye for the perfect shotA former Secret Service agent, he’s now a photographer documenting Miami’s street life. What’s more, he’s good: really good, according…
A gritty 1980s thriller about a killer millionaire and a Detroit detective, by America's top writer of hardboiled crimeRobbie Daniels is a spoilt millionaire Palm Beach playboy. He also likes to kill people...He’s the type who always gets away with everything,…
A remote stage-coach station is closing down and a small group of travellers are thrown together on the last wagon out: the mysterious Doctor Favor and his wife, a traumatised girl, a brutal stranger called Braden, the station manager, the sharp-eyed…
A lean and mean thriller about one man and the Mob from 'the crime laureate' INDEPENDENTThe last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he was in a uniform and people were shooting at him. Years later he's back looking for…
These three stories--'Picket Line', 'Chick Killer' and 'Ice Man'--show Elmore Leonard at his most terse and harsh, able to conjure up a sense of profound unease and injustice in just a few words. The main story 'Picket Line' describes a tense stand-off…
From America's top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino's hit film JACKIE BROWNJackie, a flight attendant with a serious side hustle, is about to get grounded... She’s just got busted smuggling large amounts of hot money on the…
A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore LeonardOrdell and Louis have picked the wrong woman to kidnap…They thought it would be easy money. Snatch the wife of a rich Detroit businessman and demand a nice big ransom. What they didn’t…
A major Hollywood film starring John Travolta, GET SHORTY has also been adapted for TV with Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano. Miami loan shark Chili Palmer is ice-cool, whether he's retrieving stolen property or collecting money for the mob. Chasing a bad…
Hollywoodsky producent Chili Palmer, bývalý gangster, zažil veľký triumf a veľké fiasko. Zúfalo hľadá nový filmový hit. Keď bývalý jeho spoločník skončí s guľkou v hlave, Chilimu sa otvárajú nové možnosti. Smrť nahrávacieho mogula zavedie Chiliho do…
Jeden z najznámejších autorov kriminálnych románov od čias Raymonda Chandlera sa stal kedysi inšpiračným zdrojom Quentina Tarantina, ale aj ďalších filmárov. Po detektívke Buď v pohode vám ponúkame ďalšie z jeho strhujúcich a autentických svedectiev…