Elmore Leonard: Road Dogs (UK 2010) From the Publisher: Elmore Leonard: Road Dogs. Phoenix, ISBN: 9780753826645 (November, 2010), 256 p., £7.99.
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Elmore Leonard: Road Dogs (USA 2010) From the Publisher: Elmore Leonard: Road Dogs. Harper Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780061985706 (May, 2010), 288 p., $13.99.
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Elmore Leonard: Road Dogs (UK 2009) From the Publisher: Cundo Rey says Jack Foley is the only white guy in prison he can trust. Foley is the celebrity bank robber from Out of Sight; Cundo, last seen in LaBrava, is a millionaire hustler doing time for first degree. Foley was laid low on a job he should have carried off, and his thirty years aren't going quick. When he escapes he's marched back inside by one Karen Sisco - though not, of course, before they catch up. But then Cundo pays a hot attorney to get Foley's time reduced. Thirty years turn to thirty months and the golden boy drags himself from Karen to see to Cundo's affairs - as any good Road Dog should. Waiting for Cundo in Venice, California, is his 'wife', Dawn Navarro, the seductive psychic from Riding the Rap. Waiting for Foley is Lou Adams, a rogue FBI man and no stranger to a grudge. But with two weeks' grace till Cundo walks free, Foley has other things on his mind - like getting a bit too friendly with his prison buddy's wife. Their pillow talk: screwing the real estate man for all that he's worth. Soon Cundo's back, with some favours of his own to ask the man whose freedom cost him thirty grand. But who can double - or triple - cross the other players first? With a lovable but lethal cast on a collision course for the swag, Elmore Leonard's high-octane thrills show no sign of letting up. Elmore Leonard: Road Dogs. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN: 9780297856702 (November, 2009), 262 p., £18.99.
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Elmore Leonard: Road Dogs (USA 2009) From the Publisher: Jack Foley, the charming bank robber from Out of Sight, is serving a thirty-year sentence in a Miami penitentiary, but he's made an unlikely friend on the inside who just might be able to do something about that. Fellow inmate Cundo Rey, an extremely wealthy Cuban criminal, arranges for Foley's sentence to be reduced from thirty years to three months, and when Jack is released just two weeks ahead of Cundo, he agrees to wait for him in Venice Beach, California. Also waiting for Cundo is his common-law wife, Dawn Navarro, a professional psychic with a slightly ulterior motive for staying with Cundo: namely, she wants his money. And with the arrival of Jack, she sees the perfect partner in a plan to relieve Cundo of his fortune. Cundo may be Jack's friend, but does that mean he can trust him? And can either of them trust Dawn? Road Dogs is Elmore Leonard at his best -- with his trademark tight plotting and pitch-perfect dialogue -- and readers will love seeing Cundo, Jack, and Dawn back in action and working together... or are they? Elmore Leonard: Road Dogs. A Novel. William Morrow, ISBN: 9780061733147 (May, 2009), 262 p., $26.99.
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