The Switch
Published on 5. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-241-75542-6 (ISBN)
Description
A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore Leonard
'This chaotic, blackly comic story is carried aloft on Leonard's cool, easy prose' - The Observer
Ordell and Louis have picked the wrong woman to kidnap...
They thought it would be easy money. Snatch the wife of a rich Detroit businessman and demand a nice big ransom. What they didn't reckon on was the fact that her husband has a secret mistress and doesn't want his wife back at all. Or that their victim, Margaret 'Mickey' Dawson, is more than a little tired of playing the perfect housewife. So tired, in fact, that she's out for revenge, and willing to turn the tables on everyone to get it.
'This chaotic, blackly comic story is carried aloft on Leonard's cool, easy prose' - The Observer
Ordell and Louis have picked the wrong woman to kidnap...
They thought it would be easy money. Snatch the wife of a rich Detroit businessman and demand a nice big ransom. What they didn't reckon on was the fact that her husband has a secret mistress and doesn't want his wife back at all. Or that their victim, Margaret 'Mickey' Dawson, is more than a little tired of playing the perfect housewife. So tired, in fact, that she's out for revenge, and willing to turn the tables on everyone to get it.
Reviews / Votes
The chaotic, blackly comic story is carried aloft on Leonard's cool, easy prose... Elmore Leonard's centenary year is the ideal time to discover, or rediscover, the prolific American western and crime writer whose work - fuelled by wit, charm, action and dialogue - dominated cinema screens in the 1990s * The Observer's 20 Books to Read this Summer * 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 *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: 195 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
158 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-75542-6 (9780241755426)
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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.