Raylan: A Novel
&#8220;A punchy mix of crime and Kentucky coal-mine sociology . . . It&#8217;s one of Leonard&#8217;s best thrillers in years.&#8221; (Entertainment Weekly)&#8220;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.&#8221; (San Francisco Chronicle)&#8220;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&#8217;re smashing together in orgies of violence.&#8221; (New York Times Book Review)&#8220;Raylanis Leonard&#8217;s best of the 21st century&#151;good stuff from first page to last.&#8221; (Los Angeles Times Book Review)&#8220;The smarter crooks give Raylan grudging respect; his fellow lawmen grant him their highest praise: &#8216;You&#8217;re doin&#8217; a job the way we like to see it done.&#8217; The same can be said of the 86-year-old Elmore Leonard.&#8221; (Wall Street Journal)&#8220;[Leonard&#8217;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&#151;or should&#151;is peerless.&#8221; (Detroit News)&#8220;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.&#8221; (The Guardian (UK))