Elmore Leonard: Glitz (USA 2011)

From the Publisher:
After being shot by a mugger, Lt Vincent Mora is convalescing in Puerto Rico. There he meets Iris, a beautiful young woman who is bored and frustrated, looking for excitement and a new life. Then she is offered a job as a 'hostess' at a casino in Atlantic city by Tommy Donovan. But Vincent figures out there is more to this job than Iris realizes and he decides to pay Donovan a visit. To complicate matters, Iris isn't the only one interested in Vincent - he is being stalked by a man he sent down seven and a half years before, a man out to get his revenge.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz. Penguin Modern Classics, ISBN: 9780241755341 (March, 2026), 304 p., £10.99, eBook £ 5.99.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz (USA 2011)

From the Publisher:
Psycho mama's boy Teddy Magyk has a serious jones for the Miami cop who put him away for raping a senior citizen -- but he wants to hit Vincent Mora where it really hurts before killing him. So when a beautiful Puerto Rican hooker takes a swan dive from an Atlantic City high-rise, and Vincent naturally shows up to investigate the questionable death of his “special friend,” Teddy figures he's got his prey just where he wants him. But the A.C. dazzle is blinding the Magic Man to a couple of very hard truths: Vincent Mora doesn't forgive and forget... and he doesn't die easy.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz. A Novel. William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780062121585 (November, 2011), 404 p., $14.99.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz (UK 2006)

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'The night Vincent was shot he saw it coming...'
After being shot by a mugger, Lt. Vincent Mora is convalescing in Puerto Rico. There he meets Iris, a beautiful young woman who is bored and frustrated, looking for excitement and a new life. Then she is offered a job as a 'hostess' at a casino in Atlantic city by Tommy Donovan. But Vincent figures out there is more to this job than Iris realises and he decides to pay Donovan a visit. To complicate matters, Iris isn't the only one interested in Vincent - he is being stalked by a man he sent down seven and a half years before, a man out to get his revenge.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz. Phoenix, ISBN: 0753819708 (March, 2006), 404 p., £6.99.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Psycho mama's boy Teddy Magyk has a serious jones for the Miami cop who put him away for raping a senior citizen -- but he wants to hit Vincent Mora where it really hurts before killing him. So when a beautiful Puerto Rican hooker takes a swan dive from an Atlantic City high-rise, and Vincent naturally shows up to investigate the questionable death of his “special friend,” Teddy figures he's got his prey just where he wants him. But the A.C. dazzle is blinding the Magic Man to a couple of very hard truths: Vincent Mora doesn't forgive and forget... and he doesn't die easy.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz. HarperTorch, ISBN: 0060089539 (October, 2002), 420 p., $7.50.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
A story of murder and corruption set in Puerto Rico and Atlantic City. Tommy Donovan has a casino in both places. Our cop hero Vincent is convalescing in Puerto Rico after being shot by a mugger. Vincent gets involved with a Puerto Ricon beauty who leaves to work for Donovan in Atlantic City.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz. Penguin, ISBN: 0140079254 (October, 1999), 249 p., £6.99.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
Vincent Mora just can't win. He's been shot, his girlfriend is about to be tossed off a balcony, and there's a vengeful creep looking to even a twisted score. Set against the tacky glitter of Atlantic City's billion-dollar casinos, Glitz has all the classic Leonard touches: quirky characters, colorful and cinematic scenes, and dialogue that's, well, to die for.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz. HarperPerennial, ISBN: 0688160956 (May, 1998), 251 p., $12.00.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz (UK 1986)

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GLITZY OLD ATLANTIC CITY
Underneath the Boardwalk, a lot of insects creep. But the creepiest of all was Teddy.
Devoted to his parrot-loving momma, Teddy was a rapist-killer.
And Teddy had a personal grudge out on Vincent Mora, a wounded cop, who was up from Miami in the faded glamour of Atlantic City to settle a grudge of his own.

To find whoever murdered the woman he almost loved.

'Amoral, frighteningly violent and... portrays with deadpan brilliance the soul-less people who wheel and deal, exploit and thrive like dung beetles in present-day Atlantic City' -- Daily Mail
'The best American writer of crime fiction alive -- and perhaps the best ever' -- Newsweek
'The king, the top crime writer anywhere, let alone America' -- Time Out
'Top of the list' -- The Times Literary Supplement

Elmore Leonard: Glitz. Penguin, ISBN: 0140079254 (July, 1986), 249 p., £2.50.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz (USA 1986)

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More than a thriller, more than the story of a killer and a cop, Glitz takes you into a fully-fleshed universe of high-flying gamblers, hookers, and thugs. An overwhelmingly acclaimed novel, it plunges you into a neon-lit world of greed and violence, good and evil -- and a deadly, personal vendetta you will never forget.

GLITZ
"May be the best crime novel of the year." -- Stephen King, New York Times Book Review
"Radiates high-voltage fun... keeps readers begging for more... a splendid package of mayhem." -- Newsday
"Each scene sparkles like a whore's sequined dress, each line of dialogue has the lower-depths authenticity of subway graffiti, and each slippery turn of the plot is both as surprising as seven straight passes with the dice and as inevitable as that final crap out. Unlike too much of what is called popular literature, Glitz is as solid as the house's percentage." -- USA Today

ELMORE LEONARD
"The hottest thriller writer in the U.S." -- Time

Elmore Leonard: Glitz. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446329207 (March, 1986), 355 p., $3.95.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz (USA 1985)

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A recent full-page article in Time magazine calls Elmore Leonard a "Dickens from Detroit," and The New York Times says "he's the best we've got." Each time out, more and more readers claim Elmore Leonard as one of America's most entertaining writers. Though the critics compare him to Charles Dickens, George V. Higgins, Ross Macdonald, Dostoevsky, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Balzac, Elmore Leonard can only be described as an American original. Wickedly accurate characters who become living, breathing human beings; crackling dialogue that is as fast as the blink of an eye; superb plotting whose action never wanes, all contribute to distinctive writing that is uniquely his.

In Glitz, Leonard introduces us to Lt. Vincent Mora, a been-there-and-back Miami police detective who's lying in the sun on the not-quite-status beaches of Puerto Rico trying to recover from a gunshot wound. Vincent has seen everything there is for a cop to see, but has never killed anyone until now, and he doesn't like the feeling.

Another guy Vincent didn't kill but should have is Teddy. A momma's boy rapist and now an ex-con. Teddy has only one thing on his twisted mind... vengeance. He's going to pay Vincent back, even if it means taking other people's lives. And then there's Vincent's quirky girlfriend, Iris, who takes off for Atlantic City to work as a "hostess." Seven days later, Vincent himself is there to identify Iris's body. It seems she took a dive from a tall building. Was she murdered? To find out, Vincent walks into the world of casino gambling and comes face-to-face with La Cosa Nostra -- the "wise guys" scheming to grab a share of Atlantic City's billion dollar gambling revenue. Along the way we meet a spectacular array of characters. There's nifty Nancy Donovan, from Philadelphia's Main Line; Linda Moon, the liveliest lounge act in town; Jackie Garbo, the "mouth" from Vegas. There's Moosleh Jabara, Ricky the Zit, and Frank the Ching. Vincent's unofficial investigation leads him to the unexpected Linda, a saloon singer who wants considerably more than a big hand for the little lady. A woman he just might grow to love. They play out their own story against the glitzy backdrop of the boardwalk under the watchful eye of Teddy, whose weird motivations are suspect to no one. With a plot that climbs and twists and turns, peaks with an electrifying climax, and doesn't come to rest until the reader is, literally, breathless, Glitz is Leonard at his best.

ELMORE LEONARD is the author of, among others, City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit, Split Images, Cat Chaser, LaBrava, and Stick. He lives in Birmingham, Michigan.

Elmore Leonard: Glitz. New York: Arbor House, 1985, ISBN: 0877956324, 251 p., $14.95.