Glitz: A Novel

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Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Fiction - 416 pages

“Intense….A higher caliber of entertainment.”
—New York Times

Elmore Leonard’s Glitz is a killer…in the best possible way. “The King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable noir tale of a mama’s boy psycho killer with a vendetta against a Miami cop. A cat-and-mouse tale with claws, Glitz is thrilling, frightening, explosive, surprising, everything a great thriller is supposed to be—superior crime fiction the genre’s late greats, John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al, would have been proud to call their own. Elmore Leonard, the creator of magnificent mayhem and truly unforgettable characters—like U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified—is at his nail-biting, page-turning best with Glitz which Stephen King in the New York Times Book Review calls, “Smashing and satisfying.”

 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
6
Section 3
27
Section 4
46
Section 5
63
Section 6
74
Section 7
86
Section 8
93
Section 16
210
Section 17
220
Section 18
236
Section 19
251
Section 20
268
Section 21
284
Section 22
298
Section 23
311

Section 9
110
Section 10
128
Section 11
143
Section 12
156
Section 13
169
Section 14
182
Section 15
191
Section 24
322
Section 25
341
Section 26
358
Section 27
374
Section 28
389
Section 29
402
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About the author (2009)

Elmore Leonard wrote more than forty books during his long career, including the bestsellers Raylan, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool, Get Shorty, and Rum Punch, as well as the acclaimed collection When the Women Come Out to Dance, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight. The short story "Fire in the Hole," and three books, including Raylan, were the basis for the FX hit show Justified. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He died in 2013.

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