Rum Punch
Published on 5. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-241-75540-2 (ISBN)
Description
From America's top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino's hit film JACKIE BROWN
Jackie, a flight attendant with a serious side hustle, is about to get grounded...
She's just got busted smuggling large amounts of hot money on the Caribbean-Florida run, and now the Feds are pressuring her to turn informant - but Ordell Robbie, the highly dysfunctional arms-dealer she works for, is not getting any more functional. With the help of disillusioned bail bondsman Max Cherry, could she outsmart her pursuers and walk away from the whole wreckage, happy and rich in the process? In a high-stakes game of risk, whose rum has the hardest punch?
Jackie, a flight attendant with a serious side hustle, is about to get grounded...
She's just got busted smuggling large amounts of hot money on the Caribbean-Florida run, and now the Feds are pressuring her to turn informant - but Ordell Robbie, the highly dysfunctional arms-dealer she works for, is not getting any more functional. With the help of disillusioned bail bondsman Max Cherry, could she outsmart her pursuers and walk away from the whole wreckage, happy and rich in the process? In a high-stakes game of risk, whose rum has the hardest punch?
Reviews / Votes
A trio of Elmore Leonard crime novels show that, for all his concision and aptitude for depicting violence, the magic of his prose lies in wit and charm -- John Self * The Observer * PRAISE FOR ELMORE LEONARD * - * The crime writer's crime writer, King of all he surveys -- Ian Rankin Cool talk, hot action... it's impossible not to love Elmore Leonard * LA Times * The hottest thriller writer in the US * TIME * The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever * The New York Times Book Review * Leonard is a genius * The New York Times * Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today * The New York Times * Leonard provides the fizziest and cleverest dialogue in crime fiction. A total delight * The Times * He's set the standard against which all other crime novels are measured * The New York Times *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-75540-2 (9780241755402)
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Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) began his long and extraordinary career as a writer of Westerns, most famously a story which was made into the film 3:10 To Yuma. He then became known for his remarkable sequence of crime novels, generally set in Michigan or Florida. A master of funny and threatening dialogue, his influence has been incalculable. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN US and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.