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Summary: Very well paced and highly entertaining.
Review: This was my first Elmore novel, and it's made me eager to check out the rest. I'm a big fan of super-tough cops, and Raylon is right up there. Throw in a cast that's a little bit too ecclectic for the reader to take seriously, and you've got a book that you can't put down. My only problem was that we didn't really get to know anyone, they were all dynamic people, but I didn't think that most of them were three dimensional. And we didn't get enough of a look inside Raylon's mind. But the book goes so fast, any plot holes or gaffes are just brushed aside because the story is just that good. It's the most entertaining kidnapping and rescue you'll ever read.
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Summary: The further adventures of Harry Arno
Review: What we have here is typical Elmore Leonard, but I mean that as a compliment. He has written another short but interesting story featuring mostly people whose lives would be easier if it weren't for all those silly rules society imposes on them. As they put it in "Goodfellas", people who can't turn to the police for help with their problems.This one features a character from a former book, Harry Arno. He sends someone to collect a gambling debt, but gets the tables turned on him, at least temporarily. The collectee, instead of paying, talks the hired collector into joining him in a kidnap for profit (is there any other kind) scheme. And guess who the first kidnappee will be? Try initials H.A. Leonard's books are delightful because most of the time the characters are interesting enough to want to get to know better. Harry's not a REALLY bad guy. He's fairly cultured, and prefers the finer things in life. He just has habits that happen to be against the law. So when the tables are turned, at least for the first time, we sympathize with him. And so on and so on, until things are more or less resolved, and we've gotten to know a few people we wouldn't ordinarily get know just a little bit better.
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