Labrava
Author | : Elmore Leonard |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780061830006 |
ISBN-13 | : 0061830003 |
Rating | : 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard delivers his trademark blend of action, sex, violence, humor, and hard-boiled suspense in this thrilling crime classic, LaBrava. Joe La Brava is an ex–Secret Service agent who gets mixed up in a South Miami Beach scam involving a redneck former cop, a Cuban hit man who moonlights as a go-go dancer, and a one-time movie queen whose world is part make-believe, part deadly dangerous. Fast-moving, pitch-perfect, and utterly irresistible, LaBrava is, “vintage Leonard: a blend of the true-to-life and the totally make-believe, the cinematic and the suspenseful, the world we know and a whole lot of worlds we’re glad we don’t. Only Leonard can concoct such a potent cocktail.” (USA Today).