Bandits Author:Elmore Leonard Narrated by Frank Muller. Jack Delaney liked to see the way a woman's eyes lit up when he told her he was a former jewel thief. It was a great line. He'd been released from Lousiana State pen one month shy of three years out of the "five to twenty five" the judge handed him. Now he's working for his brother-in-law Leo at Mullen & Sons, a New... more » Orleans mortuary. Working with dead people, it's amazing how fast a guy can sink. But one afternoon, Leo sends him on an errand to pick up a dead leper, and he meets Lucy, the best-looking nun he's ever laid eyes upon. Lucy has some crazy idea of how they can get their hands on several million dollars that some nasty Nicaraguan colonel has stashed away from the contra rebels. She's smart, that's for certain, and he has the necessary elan. But they need a logistics man. That's where his buddy Roy comes in, an ex-cop/ex-con with a mean streak a mile wide. If their plan succeeds, the three of them are going to make out like bandits.« less
It's Elmore Leonard's most daring novel to date - and his characters have never been more vivd. There's Lucy, the slender ex-nun in pressed Calvins; and Roy, the ex-cop whose career was cut short by a prison term. Here in New Orleans they've stumbled onto cache of several million dollars on its way to the Nicaraguan contra - and they have a plan. Together they're going to make out like bandits.
Improbable but fun - this is a story of an ex-con and a nun working together to grab some loot that's been stashed near new Orleans. Some New Orleans flavor too.