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Picket Line
“This is the best of a magnificent writer's magnificent books.”—Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried The first major release in nearly a decade from the late, best-selling Elmore Leonard—"the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” (New York Times Book Review): Picket Line is the never-before-published, prescient story of a budding agricultural strike in Texas, the racial tension brewing in the fields, and what happens when brutality from “the man” goes unchecked. “If a man comes out of the field and goes on the picket line, even for one day, he’ll never be the same...” Chino and Paco Rojas seem well-mannered, at least for Chicanos, to the white cops that pull them over for littering on the long drive from California to Trinity, Texas. So well-mannered, in fact, that Captain Frank McKellan lets them off with a warning and recommends them a job at Stanzik Farms, the largest independent melon grower in the area. But Chino and Paco didn’t drive all this way for work. Instead, Chino is looking for a mysterious man, Vincent Mora, whose new Valley Agricultural Workers Association is causing a scene striking against the farm owners. Stanzik’s fields and Mora’s union bring together a cast of unlikely characters: Connie Chavez, a former picker and blossoming revolutionary who leads with a bullhorn and a fearless mouth; Bud Davis, a white Xavier University student working for spending money; Harold Ritchie, a local marine-turned-cop; Luis Tamez, a striker whose grandson served with Harold in Vietnam; and many more, including the pragmatic Chino, who finds himself pulled irrevocably into the cause. Some are neighbors, others just passing through. Some know each other well, or at least thought they did…before the picket line. This never-before-published gem from master storyteller Elmore Leonard describes the early days of an unprecedented farmers’ movement; the complex cast of Chicanos, Anglos, and migrants that impact the union; and the careful balance of passion, patience, and pure, stupid guts that it takes to hold the line.
€ 26,00 -
Picket Line
“This is the best of a magnificent writer's magnificent books.”—Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried The first major release in nearly a decade from the late, best-selling Elmore Leonard—"the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” (New York Times Book Review): Picket Line is the never-before-published, prescient story of a budding agricultural strike in Texas, the racial tension brewing in the fields, and what happens when brutality from “the man” goes unchecked. “If a man comes out of the field and goes on the picket line, even for one day, he’ll never be the same...” Chino and Paco Rojas seem well-mannered, at least for Chicanos, to the white cops that pull them over for littering on the long drive from California to Trinity, Texas. So well-mannered, in fact, that Captain Frank McKellan lets them off with a warning and recommends them a job at Stanzik Farms, the largest independent melon grower in the area. But Chino and Paco didn’t drive all this way for work. Instead, Chino is looking for a mysterious man, Vincent Mora, whose new Valley Agricultural Workers Association is causing a scene striking against the farm owners. Stanzik’s fields and Mora’s union bring together a cast of unlikely characters: Connie Chavez, a former picker and blossoming revolutionary who leads with a bullhorn and a fearless mouth; Bud Davis, a white Xavier University student working for spending money; Harold Ritchie, a local marine-turned-cop; Luis Tamez, a striker whose grandson served with Harold in Vietnam; and many more, including the pragmatic Chino, who finds himself pulled irrevocably into the cause. Some are neighbors, others just passing through. Some know each other well, or at least thought they did…before the picket line. This never-before-published gem from master storyteller Elmore Leonard describes the early days of an unprecedented farmers’ movement; the complex cast of Chicanos, Anglos, and migrants that impact the union; and the careful balance of passion, patience, and pure, stupid guts that it takes to hold the line.
€ 22,00 -
Letztes Gefecht am Saber River
Paul Cable war für die Konföderierten in den amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg gezogen. In Tennessee hatte er sich dem 8. Texas-Kavallerie-Regiment angeschlossen, das unter dem Befehl von General Nathan Bedford Forrest stand. Als Cable im November 1864 mit seinen Kameraden den Duck River überquerte, um die Unionskavallerie zurückzudrängen, wurde er schwer verwundet. Von da an war der Krieg für ihn vorbei, obwohl im Osten des Landes noch gekämpft wurde. Er kehrt mit seiner Familie nach Arizona zurück, um sein altes Leben wieder aufzunehmen. Aber in Arizona haben sich die Dinge geändert. Vor dem Gesetz gilt Cable als Rebell, und zwei Brüder, beide Anhänger der Union, haben sein Hab und Gut konfisziert. Wahrscheinlich ist für Cable der Krieg doch noch nicht vorbei. Denn niemand vertreibt ihn ungestraft von seinem Land ...
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Schnappt Shorty
Chili Palmer, Geldeintreiber der Mafia in Miami, hat es nicht leicht. Gerade erst hat er einem Schuldner einen Haufen Kohle abgenommen, als er, vom Teufel geritten, alles in einer Nacht in Las Vegas verspielt. Bei seinen Bossen kann er sich vorerst nicht blicken lassen. Aber für einen wie Chili hat zum Glück auch ein Kasino Verwendung: Er soll beim Regisseur Harry Zimm Spielschulden eintreiben. Chili macht sich auf nach Los Angeles, in Hollywood liegt das Geld ja bekanntlich auf der Straße. Und er hat auch selbst eine Idee für ein Drehbuch in der Tasche. Vielleicht sollte er sich ohnehin aufs Filmgeschäft verlegen, wo die ganz großen Scheine winken? In L. A. zeigt sich: Zimm hat Probleme in ganz anderen Preisklassen, sein nächster Film muss ganz an die Spitze. Dann fällt sicher auch für Chili was ab. Doch zuvor muss Hollywoodstar Michael Weir, 'Shorty' genannt, gewonnen werden. Er hat noch jeden Film zum Erfolg gebracht. Dass er nicht mitspielen will, betrübt Chili natürlich. Aber was er sich in den Kopf gesetzt hat, zieht er durch - notfalls um jeden Preis.
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Elmore Leonard: Four Novels of the 1970s
Fifty-Two Pickup / Swag / Unknown Man No. 89 / The SwitchThe Library of America inaugurates its Elmore Leonard edition with four funny, street-smart early masterpieces, gathered in one volume for the first time: Blending gritty toughness and unpredictable violence with wild humor and an uncanny ear for the rhythms of ordinary speech, Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) was the most widely and enthusiastically admired crime novelist of his time. His genius for scene and dialogue led Time magazine to describe him as "a Dickens of Detroit," and Newsweek called him "the best American writer of crime alive, possibly the best we've ever had." Now The Library of America inaugurates a three-volume edition of Leonard's greatest work, prepared in consultation with the author shortly before his death and edited by his long-time researcher Gregg Sutter.The four novels collected in this first volume re-invented the American crime novel and cemented Leonard's reputation. All are set in his hometown Detroit, a hard-working "shot and a beer" kind of place whose lawless underside becomes a stage for an unforgettable cast of rogues, con artists, and psychopaths. Fifty-Two Pickup (1974), fast and sharply written, is an insidiously brutal book about an adulterous businessman who runs afoul of a crew of murderous blackmailers. Swag (1976) finds Leonard moving for the first time into the more comic mode that would become his signature, as he charts the small-time criminal careers of an amiable ex-con and an ambitious car salesman who share a bachelor pad and pursue their hedonistic dream of the good life through a string of armed robberies. Unknown Man No. 23 (1977) spins a complex web of crisscrossing rip-offs and con games, with process server Jack Ryan, a typically laid-back Leonard protagonist, caught in the middle. In The Switch (1978), one of Leonard's funniest books, Mickey Dawson, a discontented housewife held for ransom, manages to turn the tables on her kidnappers while exacting overdue revenge on her scheming husband.This volume also contains a newly researched chronology of Elmore Leonard's life, drawing on materials in his personal archive, and detailed annotations, which include as a special bonus a scene from the typescript for Swag that did not appear in the published book.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Freaky Deaky
Chris Mankowski ist es endgültig leid, für das Bombendezernat in Detroit zu arbeiten. Aber mit seiner Versetzung in die Abteilung für Sexualdelikte gehen die Probleme erst richtig los. Gleich am ersten Tag stolpert er in einen brisanten Fall hinein: Die junge Schauspielerin Greta Wyatt erstattet Anzeige gegen Woody Ricks. Der Millionär soll sie auf einer Party vergewaltigt haben. Doch nicht nur Mankowski hat Ricks im Visier: Auch die beiden ehemaligen Bombenbauer Robin Abbott und Skip Gibbs haben es auf den Millionär abgesehen, der sie an das FBI verraten haben soll. Wieder auf freiem Fuß planen Abbott und Gibbs, ihre explosiven Fähigkeiten erneut einzusetzen ...
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Rum Punch
Jackie Burkes Zukunft sieht düster aus: Nach zwanzig Jahren als Stewardess einer kleinen Fluggesellschaft wird sie noch auf dem Flughafen in Palm Beach in Gewahrsam genommen. In ihrer Tasche: fünfzig Riesen, die sie aus Jamaica in die USA geschmuggelt hat. Das FBI weiß, dass Jackie im internationalen Waffenschiebergeschäft unterwegs ist und will, dass sie die Namen ihrer Auftraggeber nennt. Doch wenn sie redet, so viel ist klar, dürfte ihr Leben nicht mehr viel wert sein. Jackie wählt die Alternative: fünf Jahre Sicherheitsverwahrung. Da taucht als Retter in der Not Max Cherry auf, seines Zeichens Kautionsagent, und bietet an, sie auszulösen. Nicht ganz uneigennützig, versteht sich. Max hofft auf ein Geschäft, außerdem hat Jackie es ihm angetan. Die allerdings hat eigene Pläne ...
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Elmore Leonard: Westerns (Loa #308)
Library of America presents a definitive collection of classic Westerns by America's master modern crime writer One of the great storytellers of our time, Elmore Leonard perfected his craft writing Westerns, a genre he loved. These tales--some adapted into such outstanding films as Hombre, Valdez Is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma--are unexcelled for their wiry tautness, sharp characterizations, and jolts of unexpected humor. For sheer stripped-down narrative tension Leonard never did anything better, and the fresh twists he finds in resolving the genre's classic confrontations reveal a master at work. Whether describing a Civil War veteran coming back to find his homestead stolen (Last Stand at Saber River), a man raised by Apaches treated with contempt by the white settlers who will ultimately depend on him for their survival (Hombre), a local constable, tricked into killing an innocent man, fighting back against the powerful man who duped him (Valdez Is Coming), or two convicts in a desert prison--one African American and the other half-Apache--plotting a near-impossible escape (Forty Lashes Less One), Leonard's westerns are tough, suspenseful, convincing, and beautifully spare in style.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Los cautivos : y otros relatos del Oeste
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Persecución mortal
Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) es considerado el último gran maestro de la novela negra norteamericana en un raro consenso tanto entre escritores que se reconocen afines a su estilo conciso como entre los que no. Fiel a los consejos expresados en un famoso decálogo que compendió en 2001, en sus novelas la escritura, desnuda y trepidante, nunca incurre en distracciones ni adornos, dando preferencia a la acción y al diálogo ?a menudo irónico y corrosivo? sobre cualquier clase de descripción física o psicológica. En ?Persecución mortal?, Wayne y Carmen Colson están en el momento equivocado en el lugar equivocado. En una pequeña ciudad en mitad de la nada en el Estado de Michigan son testigos indeseados de una extorsión. Pero además Wayne tampoco debería haber zurrado y puesto en vergüenza a los dos matones: Armand Degas y Richie Nix. Mala gente. Y mala suerte, viene a decirles la policía. Para los Colson, que a partir de entonces no tendrán tregua, envueltos en una pesadilla, sometidos a una caza implacable.
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Un tipo implacable
Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) es considerado el último gran maestro de la novela negra norteamericana en un raro consenso tanto entre escritores que se reconocen afines a su estilo conciso como entre los que no. Fiel a los consejos expresados en un famoso decálogo que compendió en 2001, en sus novelas la escritura, desnuda y trepidante, nunca incurre en distracciones ni adornos, dando preferencia a la acción y al diálogo ?a menudo irónico y corrosivo? sobre cualquier clase de descripción física o psicológica. En ?Un tipo implacable?, los Estados Unidos de la Depresión, el gangsterismo y la Ley Seca de los años treinta sirven de marco a un duelo insólito en busca de la fama entre el autodestructivo Jack Belmont, ávido por convertirse en el ?enemigo público número uno?, y Carl Webster, un joven policía señalado por su frialdad y su capacidad calculadora.
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Charlie Martz and Other Stories
“Elmore Leonard is a classic of one.”—Dennis Lehane Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore Leonard was recognized as one of the greatest crime writers of all time, the author of dozens of bestselling books—many adapted for the big screen—as well as a master of short fiction. Leonard remains the standard for popular fiction and a literary model for writers of every genre. Marked by his unmistakable humor and grit, the stories in this collection—produced early in his career—reveal a writer in transition. In these tales Leonard explores new voices and locations, and introduces us to classic Leonard characters, such as aging lawman Charlie Martz, who must face an old rival who returns seeking revenge. Devoted Leonard aficionados and fans new to his fiction will marvel at these early works revealing a developing artist on the cusp of greatness. “Fascinating and inspiring.”—New York Journal of Books“The collection abounds with signs of the writer to come.”—Newsday
€ 19,50