Summary
From America’s top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino’s hit film JACKIE BROWN.
Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie Burke couriers Ordell’s profits from Freeport to Miami. But the feds are on to Jackie - and now the aging, but still hot, flight attendant will have to do prison time or play ball, which makes her a prime ‘loose end’ that Ordell needs to tie up…permanently. Jackie, ho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753819739 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753819732 |
| Author: | Elmore Leonard |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2005 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 20mm |
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Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today - NEW YORK TIMES
Not just a good storyteller, but also an important novelist - a model of action-writing at its best - PHILIP KERRAbout The Author
Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard was born in New Orleans on 11 October 1925. He wrote forty-five books during his phenomenal career, including the bestsellers Mr Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool and The Hot Kid. Many have been made into successful movies, including Get Shorty with John Travolta, Out of Sight with George Clooney and Rum Punch, which became Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. He is the recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. He died on 20 August 2013 in Detroit.
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