The Switch (25 page)

I.  
ALL BY ELMORE: THE CRIME NOVELS; THE WESTERNS

 

II.  
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

 

III.  
IF IT SOUNDS LIKE WRITING, REWRITE IT

 

V.  
MARTIN AMIS INTERVIEWS “THE DICKENS OF DETROIT”

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Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books during his highly successful writing career, including the national bestsellers Tishomingo Blues, Pagan Babies, and Be Cool. Many of his novels have been made into movies, including Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Valdez Is Coming, and Rum Punch (as Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown). He has been named Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America and lives in Bloomfield Village, Michigan, with his wife.

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THE SWITCH

 

“The King Daddy of crime novelists.”

Seattle Times

“Elmore Leonard is the real thing. . . . He raises the hard-boiled suspense novel beyond the limits of the genre. . . . He paints an acute picture of the world that is all too real and recognizable.”

Washington Post

“Nobody but nobody on the current scene can match his ability to serve up violence so light-handedly, with so supremely deadpan a flourish.”

Detroit News

“No one is Leonard's equal. . . . The great ones never seem to sweat, even when they're working hard. Ali, boxing; Astaire, dancing; Streisand, singing; Secretariat, at full gallop. And Elmore Leonard, writing.”

Chicago Tribune

“The finest thriller writer alive.”

The Village Voice

“The hottest thriller writer in the U.S.”

Time

“Mr. Leonard dazzles as he sprinkles his work continually with unexpected convolutions. . . . His people are real, with nary a stereotype in the pack.”

New York Times Book Review

“Leonard is the best in the business: His dialogue snaps, his characters are more alive than most of the people you meet on the street, and his twisting plots always resolve themselves with a no-nonsense plausibility.”

Newsday

“The reigning master of hard-action crime fiction . . . Few fiction writers match the artful ability of Elmore Leonard, first to persuade you to read his next sentence, then to draw you into reading his next chapter, and finally to seduce you into reading his entire book.”

Cincinnati Enquirer

“Leonard is so scary he makes you want to leave the light on all night.”

Boston Globe

“Leonard gets better and better and better. He makes the rest of us mystery writers green with envy.”

Tony Hillerman

“No one can beat Elmore Leonard when it comes to mordant humor and shockingly bizarre situations.”

Orlando Sentinel

“Leonard does crime fiction better than anyone since Raymond Chandler.”

Cleveland Plain Dealer

“His books defy classification. . . . What Leonard does is write fully realized novels, using elements of the classic American crime novel and populating them with characters so true and believable you want to read their lines aloud to someone you really like.”

Dallas Morning News

“Leonard lets his characters reveal themselves in talk (torrents of it, all wonderful) and action, describing in terse narrative that echoes the mind-set and vocabulary of the players. . . . And the results are irresistible. . . . He continually invents characters who lie, cheat, steal, rob, deceive, betray, maim, kill, and stomp on any remaining niceties of civilized behavior that get in their way. The wonder is that he makes these figures comprehensible and occasionally even sympathetic.”

Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Leonard is tops in his field. . . . In Leonard's sleazy world you always meet interesting characters. . . . I'm an Elmore Leonard groupie.”

New Orleans Times-Picayune

Books by Elmore Leonard

 

The Bounty Hunters

The Law at Randado

Escape from Five Shadows

Last Stand at Saber River

Hombre

The Big Bounce

The Moonshine War

Valdez Is Coming

Forty Lashes Less One

Mr. Majestyk

52 Pickup

Swag

Unknown Man #89

The Hunted

The Switch

Gunsights

Gold Coast

City Primeval

Split Images

Cat Chaster

Stick

LaBrava

Glitz

Bandits

Touch

Freaky Deaky

Killshot

Get Shorty

Maximum Bob

Rum Punch

Pronto

Riding the Rap

Out of Sight

Cuba Libre

The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories

Be Cool

Pagan Babies

Tishomingo Blues

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the
products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as
real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is
entirely coincidental.

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