Unable to add item to List. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Distraught, Harry calls his lawyer Jim O'Boyle for help. Categories: ‧ “Quiet and calculating. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. When his adulterous affair is caught on tape by the three men, Harry Mitchell is forced to either pay up one hundred thousand dollars or deal with the consequences. Leo is working with Alan Raimy, the mastermind of the extortion. A leap forward in Elmore Leonard's crime fiction writing, Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2015. There was a problem loading your book clubs.

Well-written, gritty crime novel about blackmail. he gets even. Blackmailers have factory owner Harry Mitchell over a barrel.

Elmore Leonard is a master at telling a story around gritty, believable characters. . Full of tough characters and sizzling dialogue this gritty crime novel is a hidden gem in the high profile list of the author’s work. Exposes the Dark Side of Humanity. Either he pays them $105,000 a year or they turn over an incriminating film of him cheating on his wife to the police and press, and more, if he doesn't pay up. Excellent early Elmore. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into m. Elmore John Leonard lived in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Memphis before settling in Detroit in 1935. Exposes the Dark Side of Humanity. by Elmore Leonard ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 15, 1974. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. The original version of this novel had a nice pace and was a fairly interesting read.

This gives it a strong sense of momentum throughout. 4.7. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Your email address will not be published. Fast, violent, and fun. ‧ Elmore Leonard is a master at telling a story around gritty, believable characters. The characters are pretty one dimensional and the plot predictable. O'Boyle recommends calling the police. As the story progress and MC powers up a lot the story starts falling all over the place. Two masked men have caught his misdemeanors on camera and now they want a cool hundred grand. Brit Bennett Wrestles With Identity in New Novel, Brit Bennett on the ‘Wildest Week’ of Her Life. 4.7. original 6 My Vampire System Fantasy. Exposes the Dark Side of Humanity. This executive, Harry Mitchell, like many of Leonard's other character has more to him than is readily apparent. I liked it. Always mild-mannered, the nice guy—until someone steps over the line and challenges him.”, “She said very quietly, “Mitch?” “What?” “There’s somebody downstairs.” “I know there is.”, "Crime" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" List, A New Season of Reading: The Hot Books of Summer. & Please try again. George Orwell Kin “[find] each other’s lives inscrutable” in this rich, sharp story about the way identity is formed. George Orwell Brit Bennett, by And what a nice one to start with. There's something fascinating about a regular joe not just getting in over his head in bad trouble, but facing up to it and being enough man to handle it without flinching. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Mitchell, a man of wealth even if it's all tied up in his automobile accessory plant, commits one of those meaningless indiscretions after 22 years of marriage in the form of Cini whom he picks up in a bar-brothel. Click on a plot link to find similar books. Bennett's novel plays with its characters' nagging feelings of being incomplete—for the twins without each other; for Jude’s boyfriend, Reese, who is trans and seeks surgery; for their friend Barry, who performs in drag as Bianca. It is brilliant, absorbing and makes the novel a page turner. A modern day fable, with modern implications in a deceiving simplicity, by the author of Dickens. Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2013. . It calls up Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, the book's 50-year-old antecedent. The talented Bennett fuels her fiction with secrets—first in her lauded debut, The Mothers (2016), and now in the assured and magnetic story of the Vignes sisters, light-skinned women parked on opposite sides of the color line. [With three dead blackmailers including one he blew up in his own parking lot, it seems like Harry will have to come clean with the cops. Peter Davison, by Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. If you know Elmore Leonard novels, then you know that there is only one choice for Mitchell.

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