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Swag is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard, first published in 1976 and since also released as an audio recording. The first paperback edition was published under the alternative title of Ryan's Rules .
Glitz is a 1985 novel by author Elmore Leonard, following the story of Detective Vincent Mora who is being stalked by Teddy Magyk, the serial rapist he put away. It was made into a 1988 television film starring Jimmy Smits and Markie Post .
The Big Bounce is a crime novel written by Elmore Leonard, published in 1969. The author's first attempt at the crime genre after having met success with westerns , it was adapted twice into film. It is also Leonard's first book starring the character of Jack Ryan (no relation to Tom Clancy 's character of the same name ), who would return ...
Plot summary [ edit ] Joe LaBrava gets involved with former movie star Jean Shaw, an actress whom he had admired when he was a twelve-year-old boy, before discovering that she is being harassed by thug Richard Nobles and his partner Cundo Rey.
Like Pronto, Riding the Rap centers around Harry Arno, World War II veteran and bookie, now 67 years old.The book also features a reappearance of Joyce Patton, Harry's ex-girlfriend and a former stripper, and her new boyfriend Raylan Givens, an always-gets-his-man old western type law enforcer.
Jack Foley, a "gentleman bank robber," arranges a break-out from a Florida jail.The plan is interrupted by shotgun-toting Federal Marshal Karen Sisco. The pair end up in the trunk of the getaway car, where they find they have a mutual interest: classic Hollywood movies.
"Three-Ten to Yuma" is a short story written by Elmore Leonard that was first published in Dime Western Magazine, a 1950s pulp magazine, in March 1953. It is one of the very few Western stories to have been adapted to the screen twice, in 1957 and in 2007 .
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