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If you've ever seen the movie "Jackie Brown", it was based on this book.
Wonderful, funny twists and turns. Classic Elmore Leonard - a great read and my favorite movie.
Wonderful, funny twists and turns. Classic Elmore Leonard - a great read and my favorite movie.
Lots of fun. I saw Jackie Brown in the theater and knew I'd like this book. Of course the book is better! More plot twists and Leonard has a way of presenting his characters that make them quite memerable. A great book to have on a rainy weekend.
Like a pulled punch, the author's latest evocation of lives on the periphery has a somewhat restrained quality, although the characters here, especially the women, are vintage Leonard ( Get Shorty ), and the dialogue is as authentic as conversations overheard in a mall restaurant. A combination of coincidence and choice connects the fates of Jackie Burke, a 44-year-old, thrice-married stewardess, bail bondsman Max Cherry, overweight and in his 50s, and brash young gun dealer Ordell Robbie, in Miami. When Jackie is caught bringing cash into the U.S. from the Bahamas for Ordell, she agrees to cooperate with federal and state agents to catch him in a sting operation. Max, who has posted Jackie's bond and is drawn to her, becomes her sounding board as she contemplates a sting of her own. The appealing and utterly amoral Ordell involves an unreliable ex-con pal, a crew of jackboys and his three women--sweet young Sheronda; amply endowed, untrustworthy Melanie; older "aunty" Simone, whose appetites are unabated--in his last-ditch effort to make a killing. Chances offered, taken and passed up are the leitmotif in this bittersweet slice of south Florida life. BOMC featured alternate; QPB selection; author tour.
entertaining - the basis for Jackie Brown
Fast-paced novel about criminals, detectives, bondsman, and the women that love them.
Great book by Leonard
Classic characters, and basis for Quentin Terrantino's movie Jackie Brown. The movie is pretty faithful to the book.
Lots of fun. Clever plotting. You are kept in suspense how the complex situation will be resolved.
Entertaining, and humorous!
