Raylan: A Novel
“A punchy mix of crime and Kentucky coal-mine sociology . . . It’s one of Leonard’s best thrillers in years.” (Entertainment Weekly)“With a practised ease and the craft of more than half a century of novelistic composition, Leonard works like the Picasso of crime fiction . . .Raylanis as close as it gets to creating the complete illusion of unmediated entertainment on the page.” (San Francisco Chronicle)“In addition to kinetic storytelling and spot-on dialogue, Leonard has a cool wit. . . . Characters roll from scene to scene, urged on by self-interest and greed, bumping against one another and building up steam until they’re smashing together in orgies of violence.” (New York Times Book Review)“Raylanis Leonard’s best of the 21st century—good stuff from first page to last.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)“The smarter crooks give Raylan grudging respect; his fellow lawmen grant him their highest praise: ‘You’re doin’ a job the way we like to see it done.’ The same can be said of the 86-year-old Elmore Leonard.” (Wall Street Journal)“[Leonard’s] finely honed sentences can sound as flinty/poetic as Hemingway or as hard-boiled as Raymond Chandler. His ear for the way people talk—or should—is peerless.” (Detroit News)“There is no greater writer of crime fiction than Elmore Leonard, and no one who has more resplendent energy. . . . Like pretty well every Leonard novel,Raylanis a delight.” (The Guardian (UK))