Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
"ELMORE LEONARD IS OUR GREATEST CRIME NOVELIST... THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS." -- WASHINGTON POST
Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn't hit a curveball, so he turned his attentions to less legal pursuits. A tough guy who likes walking the razor's edge, he's just met his match -- and more -- in Nancy. She's a rich man's plaything, seriously into thrills and risk, and together she and Jack are pure heat ready to explode. But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. Because violence and double-crosses are the name of this game -- and it's going to take every ounce of cunning Jack and Nancy possess to survive... each other.

"Leonard's mastery of character building makes both Jack and Nancy solidly believable... . Brilliant." -- Daily Mail (UK)
"The debate over who's the all-time king of the whack-job crime novelists just ended. Living or dead, Elmore Leonard tops 'em all." -- Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

ELMORE LEONARD has written more than forty books during his highly successful writing career, and many of his novels have been made into movies. Leonard is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Bloomfield Village, Michigan.

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce. A Novel. William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780062184283 (April, 2012), 336 p., $14.99.

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
"But the whole deal, staying and going along with her idea, both, depended really on how much nerve he had. Which she would have to find out..."
Nancy Hayes has plenty of feminine charm - and the instincts of a shark.
Jack Ryan is handy with his fists, and has all the cunning of an ex-con.
Now, in a Michigan resort town, a rich man wants Jack gone and Nancy for himself.
For Jack, the choice is clear: Nancy's promises of pleasure, her crazy, thrill-seeking schemes of breaking into homes, shooting guns and maybe stealing a whole lot of money is driving him mad.
But there is one thing Jack doesn't know yet. Nancy is planning the deadliest thrill of all...

The beguiling story of a man, a woman and a nasty crime, from 'the hottest thriller writer in the US' [Time].

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce. Phoenix, ISBN: 9780753822456 (April, 2009), 240 p., £7.99.

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce (USA 2004)

From the Publisher:
ELMORE LEONARD
"The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever." -- New York Times Book Review
Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn't hit a curveball, so he turned his attentions to less legal pursuits. A tough guy who likes walking the razor's edge, he's just met his match -- and more -- in Nancy. She's a rich man's plaything, seriously into thrills and risk, and together she and Jack are pure heat ready to explode. But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. Because violence and double-cross are the name of this game -- and it's going to take every ounce of cunning Jack and Nancy possess to survive... each other.

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce. HarperTorch, ISBN: 0060084022 (January, 2004), 325 p., $7.50.

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce (USA 2003)

From the Publisher:
"A SAGE POET OF CRIME." -- Houston Chronicle
Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn't hit a curveball, so he turned his attention to less legal pursuits. A tough guy who likes walking the razor's edge, he's just met his match -- and more -- in Nancy. She's a rich man's plaything, seriously into thrills and risk, and together she and Jack are pure heat ready to explode. But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. Because violence and double-cross are the name of this game -- and it's going to take every ounce of cunning Jack and Nancy possess to survive... each other.

"The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever." -- New York Times Book Review

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce. HarperTorch, ISBN: 0060084022 (February, 2003), 309 p., $7.50.

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce (UK 2001)

From the Publisher:
Jack Ryan has a man's fists, and the cunning of an ex-con. Nancy Hayes has a woman's sleek moves and the instincts of a shark. Now, in a Michigan resort town, a rich man wants Jack gone and Nancy for himself. For Ryan the choice is clear: Nancy's promises of pleasure, her crazy, thrill-seeking schemes of breaking into homes, shooting guns and maybe stealing a whole lot of money are driving him half mad. But there's one thing Ryan doesn't know yet: his new playmate is planning the deadliest thrill of all. Razor sharp and wholly unpredictable, the Big Bounce is an Elmore Leonard classic - a sly, beguiling story of a man, a woman and a nasty little crime.

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce. Robert Hale, ISBN: 0709069146 (October, 2001), 223 p., £17.99.

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
"Elmore Leonard is an awfully good writer of the sneaky sort; he is so good, you don't notice what he's up to." -- The Washington Post Book World
PLAYMATE OF THE DAY
Jack Ryan has a man's fists, a boy's mind, and the cunning of an ex-con. Nancy Hayes has a woman's sleek moves and the instincts of a shark. Now, in a Michigan resort town, a rich man wants Jack gone and Nancy for himself. For Ryan the choice is clear: Nancy's promises of pleasure, her crazy, thrill-seeking schemes of breaking into homes, shooting guns, and maybe stealing a whole lot of money are driving him half mad. But there's one thing Ryan doesn't know yet: his new playmate is planning the deadliest thrill of all.

Razor-sharp and wholly unpredictable, The Big Bounce is an Elmore Leonard classic -- a sly, beguiling story of a man, a woman, and a nasty little crime.

"Leonard does crime fiction better than anyone since Raymond Chandler." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!" -- The New York Times Book Review

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce. Dell, ISBN: 0440236118 (February, 2000), 247 p., $6.99.

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce (USA 1986)

From the Publisher:
Jack Ryan seemed destined for a dreary life of picking cucumbers and doing odd jobs as a handyman before he met Nancy Hayes, a young seductress who got her thrills by smashing windows and breaking the hearts of married men. On the bleak coast of northern Michigan there's nothing to do for kicks, so together they planned to snatch a fifty-thousand-dollar payroll. For her, it meant excitement and revenge on a cheap-skate sugar daddy. For him, it meant a ticket to the Coast and Nancy's continued affections.

From the author of Glitz and The Hunted comes a novel of the evil which blossoms from a crazed search for thrills -- an evil which leads to senseless death./p>

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce. The Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0445405198 (September, 1986), 192 p., $3.95.

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce (USA 1969)

From the Publisher:
SHE DIDN'T NEED MONEY
SHE DIDN'T NEED ANOTHER MAN
SHE JUST NEEDED KICKS -
WHAT SHE CALLED... THE BIG Bounce

HALF CHILD... HALF WOMAN... ALL BITCH!
She ruined every life she touched -- and she couldn't keep her hands off anyone. Not even a tough young drifter like Jack Ryan was a match for this freaked-out chick who got her kicks playing dirty games with other women's husbands.

THE BIG BOUNCE -- a tough, relentless novel of a rich girl hell-bent for pleasure, and the guy who went along for the ride.

Fawcett World Library

Elmore Leonard: The Big Bounce. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1969, Fawcett Gold Medal #R2079, 192 p., 60¢.