Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob (USA 2010)

From the Publisher:
Hard-ass Palm Beach County judge Bob Isom Gibbs enjoys sending even petty offenders away to do hard time -- which has made the list of miscreants who want him dead longer than a fully grown Florida gator's tail. And a good number of his illwishers are probation officer Kathy Baker's clients, including young Dale Crowe and his psycho uncle Elvin. Now, Kathy's got an even more daunting task than keeping BIG's horny hands off her: keeping "Maximum Bob" alive. Because Gibbs's many enemies seem to be willing to go to any lengths -- be it death by amphibian or some more tried-and-true method -- to permanently end the career of an oversexed, racist jurist who's more interested in scoring than in saving his own red neck.

Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob. Harper Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780062009401 (September, 2010), 352 p., $13.99.

Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
When someone delivers an alligator to Judge Bob Gibbs' porch, there's no shortage of suspects - hard-sentencing, womanising redneck 'Maximum Bob' is pretty much the most unpopular man in Florida. Throw into the mix the Crowe clan - about as primitive and aggressive as any alligator - a doped-up doctor on early release with a tag, quick-witted probation officer Kathy Baker, a mermaid and a long-dead slave girl called Wanda, and things get a tad complicated. And inevitably, they don't work out the way you might expect.

Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob. Phoenix, ISBN: 9780753822395 (March, 2007), 272 p., £6.99.

Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Hard-ass Palm Beach County judge Bob Isom Gibbs enjoys sending even petty offenders away to do hard time -- which has made the list of miscreants who want him dead longer than a fully grown Florida gator's tail. And a good number of his illwishers are probation officer Kathy Baker's clients, including young Dale Crowe and his psycho uncle Elvin. Now, Kathy's got an even more daunting task than keeping BIG's horny hands off her: keeping "Maximum Bob" alive. Because Gibbs's many enemies seem to be willing to go to any lengths -- be it death by amphibian or some more tried-and-true method -- to permanently end the career of an oversexed, racist jurist who's more interested in scoring than in saving his own red neck.

Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob. HarperTorch, ISBN: 0060084081 (August, 2002), 352 p., $7.50.

Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
Florida judge "Maximum" Bob Gibbs, has made a career out of over-sentencing felons and chasing women. Now he's making his life even crazier with a half-cocked scheme to rid himself of his loopy wife. And why do there seem to be an inordinate number of bullets flying in his direction? Could it be that one of the criminals he put away has returned for vengeance?

Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob. Dell Publishing, ISBN: 0440212189 (May, 1992), 326 p., $5.99.

Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob (UK 1992)

From the Publisher:
Someone is out to get redneck southern judge, nicknamed Maximum Bob, because of the lengthy sentences he hands out. He is the target of a whole chain gang of baddies and they all go to create comedy. The author has also written "Glitz", "Dutch Treat" and "Get Shorty".

Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob. Penguin, ISBN: 0140139575 (April, 1992), 295 p., £4.99.

Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
Enter the world of Elmore Leonard. The setting is Palm Beach County, Florida, where someone places a live ten-foot alligator in the backyard of the bigoted, redneck judge Bob Gibbs--known to all as Maximum Bob--and his wife, Leanne, a former Weeki Wachee mermaid. Not long after that, shots are fired into the judge's house. It doesn't take much figuring to conclude that someone's out to get him and that malefactor isn't going to stop at the second try. There's a long list of suspects: Dale Crowe, who just got an outrageous sentence for a minor crime; his uncle Elvin, a killer on parole, raring to go again; Dr. Tommy Vasco, the drugged out former medical doctor; his equally bizarre friend, Hector; and Dicky Campau, who makes a living poaching alligators. And there are others.

Somehow Kathy Baker, a nifty young probation officer, has got herself in the middle of all this. She's got to avoid two seducers--the judge and a homicidal maniac--and work with a young police officer who interests her for more than professional reasons. Trying to pick out from his assortment of bad guys, sociopaths, and punks the one who's trying to kill the judge is pure entertainment, as only Elmore Leonard, with his ear for the sound and eye for the sight of lowlife, can provide.

Elmore Leonard: Maximum Bob. Delacorte Press, ISBN: 0385301421 (July, 1991), 295 p., $20.00.