Elmore Leonard
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Crossfire Trail: "A mysterious drifter is determined to keep a promise that he'll protect a man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the man's motives. And an unscrupulous land grabber and his gunmen are sizing up the ranch for a takeover."--container
Last stand at Saber River: "An ex-Confederate cavalryman turned homesteader thinks he'll resume a quiet life in Arizona with his wife and children. But one more battle looms when he finds...
Author
Series
Raylan Givens thrillers volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After an altercation with his superiors in Harlan County, Kentucky, Deputy US Marshal, Raylan Givens is offered two choices. He can either retire or finish his career on the fugitive task force in the crime-ridden precincts of Detroit. Acting on a tip, Raylan and his new partner, deputy marshal Bobby Torres arrest Jose Rindo, a destructive and violent criminal. Rindo is also being pursued by the FBI who arrive shortly after he is in custody. Raylan...
65) Get Shorty
Pub. Date
2005, c1995
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Description
Loan shark Chili Palmer journeys to Hollywood to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm. While there, he begins to consider a career in the movie industry for himself.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Harry Levin, a Holocaust survivor and scrap metal dealer in Detroit, lives a quiet life until he gets a late night phone call telling him his daughter has been, killed in an automobile accident. Harry goes to Washington DC to claim the body and finds out the other driver is a German diplomat, who was driving drunk. Ernst Hess, the diplomat, is, granted immunity from prosecution. Harry, whose parents were, killed at Dachau, follows Hess to Munich to...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
In Season 4, Raylan will start to pick at the thread of a cold case over 30 years in the making, unraveling a riddle that echoes all the way back to his boyhood and his criminal father's bad dealings. Meanwhile Boyd Crowder finds his grip on Harlan loosening due to a Pentecostal preacher with a penchant for theatrics and a knack for manipulation to rival his own.
71) Mr. Majestyk
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
When a Vietnam veteran settles down in Colorado to become a melon farmer, he finds himself becoming involved with the local gangsters.
72) Be cool
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Chili Palmer is tired of the producing movies after being forced to make a useless sequel. When a music producer friend is gunned down, he offers to help his widow run the business. Checking out a talented singer that his friend had been talking to him about puts Chili at odds with her sleazy music manager, his gay bodyguard, and his equally sleazy partner. The mismanagement of the music company also gets Chili threatened by members of the Russian...
74) 3:10 to Yuma
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail,...
75) Life Of Crime
Pub. Date
2014
Description
When two criminals kidnap the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer, things take a sudden turn when they learn that he has no intent of paying her million dollar ransom.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
As battered and tarnished as his shield, aging Mexican-American lawman Bob Valdez (Lancaster) has learned to bend under decades of prejudice. But when a cold-hearted American gunrunner humiliates him to the limits of dignity, he pulls himself up, straps on his guns, and announces a vendetta with a terse message: "VALDEZ IS COMING."
77) Killshot
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"Armand 'Blackbird' Degas is a Mafia hit man who shoots to kill and never leaves witnesses, until now. When Carmen and Wayne Colson see him at the scene of a botched murder attempt, they become his next targets. After entering witness protection, they discover the law isn't on their side and decide to take matters into their own hands"--Container.
78) Life of crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he'd actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and twists.
79) The big bounce
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Jack is a small-time con man trying to lead an easier life in Hawaii. Trouble is, he can't keep out of trouble, and when he does stay clean, trouble finds him. Trouble, in this case, comes in the bikini-clad form of Nancy, the mistress of a local real estate developer. She lures Jack into a scheme that ultimately involves complicating Jack's moral dilemma when Nancy asks Jack to help her double-cross the developer out of $200,000.
80) Get Shorty
Pub. Date
2005, c1995
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmakerHarry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.