Bandits

“Almost unbearable suspense. Leonard has produced another winner.”—PeopleA wild ride with “the coolest, hottest writer in America” (Chicago Tribune), Bandits has everything Elmore Leonard fans love: non-stop thrills, unexpected twists and turns, unforgettable characters, and the most razor-sharp dialogue being rapidly exchanged anywhere in the crime fiction genre. Leonard stands tall among the all-time greats (John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain) and towers far above most of the writers currently plying the noir fiction trade. The master who created U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, currently of the hit TV series Justified, is at the top of his game, ensnaring readers in an ingenious plot hatched by a former jewel thief and a radical ex-nun to scam millions from a sadistic Nicaraguan colonel. In fact, the Philadelphia Inquirer says Bandits “may well be his best.” Read it and decide for yourself. Almost unbearable suspense. Leonard has produced another winner. People A wild ride with the coolest, hottest writer in America ( Chicago Tribune ), Bandits has everything Elmore Leonard fans non-stop thrills, unexpected twists and turns, unforgettable characters, and the most razor-sharp dialogue being rapidly exchanged anywhere in the crime fiction genre. Leonard stands tall among the all-time greats (John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain) and towers far above most of the writers currently plying the noir fiction trade. The master who created U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, currently of the hit TV series Justified , is at the top of his game, ensnaring readers in an ingenious plot hatched by a former jewel thief and a radical ex-nun to scam millions from a sadistic Nicaraguan colonel. In fact, the Philadelphia Inquirer says Bandits may well be his best. Read it and decide for yourself.

working At His Brother-in-law's New Orleans Funeral Home Isn't Reformed Jewel Thief Jack Delaney's Idea Of Excitement — Until He's Dispatched To A Leper's Hospital To Pick Up A Corpse That Turns Out To Be Very Much Alive ... And Under The Care Of A Beautiful, Radical Ex-nun In Designer Jeans. The Deceased Is The One-time Squeeze Of A Nicaraguan Colonel Who's Ordered Her Dead For Trying To Infect Him, And Sister Lucy's Looking To Spirit The Young Woman Away From His Guns And Goons. Plus Lucy's Getting Ideas About Spiriting Away Some Of The Colonel's Millions As Well — And Someone With Jack Delaney's Talents Could Come In Very Handy Indeed.

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Now with a new look, this classic from the "New York Times" bestselling author is the suspenseful tale of a former nun, an ex-cop, and an ex-con who plan a brilliant scheme to get rich--if they survive long enough An ex-nun, an ex-con, and an ex-cop stumble onto a private fund-raising scheme to aid the Contras in Nicaragua. Together they have decided the several million dollars raised should not leave New Orleans Ex-nun Lucy Nichols, ex-con Jack Delaney, and ex-cop and ex-con Roy Hicks attempt to steal several million dollars that was raised as aid for the Nicaraguan Contras EVERY TIME THEY GOT A CALL from the leper hospital to pick up a body Jack Delaney would feel himself coming down with the flu or something.