Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser (UK 2025)

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The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he was in a uniform and people were shooting at him. Years later he's back looking for a girl he lost - and finding one he'd be better off without. Mary de Boya may be beautiful, but she's also the wife of a former death squad general in exile with mob connections. So much for the trip down memory lane - now Moran finds himself in a cat's cradle of drug deals, swindles, vengeance and murder.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser. Penguin Modern Classics, ISBN: 9780241755310 (October, 2025), 256 p., £9.99, eBook £5.99.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser (USA 2012)

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The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he was in a uniform and people were shooting at him. Years later he's back looking for a girl he lost -- and finding one he'd be better off without. But that doesn't matter to George while he's sleeping with beautiful Mary DeBoya -- only when he discovers his lover is the wife of a former death squad general in exile with solid mob connections. Now George is bringing big trouble back with him to the Sunshine State -- as his nostalgic trip down memory lane has tangled him up in a cat's cradle of drug deals, swindles, vengeance, and murder... and a love that's not only blind but lethal.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser. A Novel. William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780062190956 (July, 2012), 368 p., $14.99.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser (UK 2005)

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'Dialogue like broken glass, sharp and glittering, and a raft of low-lifes individualised in primary colours like hard-edged pop-art' -- Independent
The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he was in a uniform and people were shooting at him. Years later he's back looking for a girl he lost - and finding one he'd be better off without. Mary de Boya may be beautiful, but she's also the wife of a former death squad general in exile with mob connections. So much for the trip down memory lane - now Moran finds himself in a cat's cradle of drug deals, swindles, vengeance and murder.

'Elmore Leonard is the crime writer's crime writer, king of all he surveys' -- Ian Rankin
'Leonard truly shines. He has created a gallery of compelling, off-the-wall villains unequalled in American crime fiction' -- New York Times

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser. Phoenix, ISBN: 075381966X (February, 2003), 242 p., £6.99.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser (USA 2003)

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"THE BEST SUSPENSE WRITER IN AMERICA." -- Miami Herald
The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he was in a uniform and people were shooting at him. Years later he's back looking for a girl he lost -- and finding one he'd be better off without. But that doesn't matter to George while he's sleeping with beautiful Mary de Boya -- only when he discovers his lover is the wife of a former death squad general in exile with solid mob connections. Now George is bringing big trouble back with him to the Sunshine State -- as his nostalgic trip down memory lane has tangled him up in a cat's cradle of drug deals, swindles, vengeance and murder... and a love that's not only blind but lethal.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
"A superior example of gritty writing and violent action." -- New York Times

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser. HarperTorch; ISBN: 0060512229 (February, 2003), 373 p., $7.50.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser (USA 1998)

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The hero of Cat Chaser, George Moran, isn't looking for trouble but finds it anyway when he winds up in bed with the wife of a drug-dealing mob-connected Dominican cop -- vicious, macho and ready to follow George to the ends of the earth, which in this case means Miami.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser. Quill, ISBN: 0688163416 (November, 1998), 283 p., $12.00.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he was in a uniform and people were shooting at him. Years later he's back looking for a girl he lost -- and finding one he'd be better off without. But that doesn't matter to George while he's sleeping with beautiful Mary de Boya -- only when he discovers his lover is the wife of a former death squad general in exile with solid mob connections. Now George is bringing big trouble back with him to the Sunshine State -- as his nostalgic trip down memory lane has tangled him up in a cat's cradle of drug deals, swindles, vengeance and murder... and a love that's not only blind but lethal.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380646420 (March, 1997), 283 p., $6.50.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser (UK 1989)

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Sixteen years isn't a long time when you can't get something out of your system.
The Dominican revolution is sixteen years old. So is George Moran's obsession with a beautiful female sniper. Ex-leatherneck Moran lives in Miami, and maybe life is just too easy there - the sun, a six-pack by the pool, his own Coconut Palms Motel...

Why go back to an alien killing ground, to the world's ripest theatre of intrigue, double-dealing and murder? Maybe Moran is looking for the pretty sniper who spared his life. But maybe he's looking for trouble...

'Vintage Leonard, iced with evil, laced with humour dry enough to crinkle the mouth throughout' -- Sunday Times

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser. In the heat of passion lies the coldest desire. Penguin, ISBN: 0140110402 (November, 1989), 288 p., £3.50.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser (USA 1983 / 3rd printing)

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MURDER OVER MIAMI
Maybe life was too easy for ex-leatherneck George Moran. He owned the Coconut Palms Motel. He had the sun. He had time for a six-pack by the pool. What did he need with a sentimental journey to Santo Domingo, where he fought in '65? Maybe he was looking for the pretty sniper who had spared his life.

Maybe he was just looking for trouble...
Because that's what he found when he fell in love with Mary de Boya, wife of a Miami millionaire who was formerly a Dominican general specializing in torture. It was a good way to get hurt. Especially when somebody wants to rip off the two million bucks under de Boya's bed... and Moran gets caught in the crossfire of a deadly con.

"CAT CHASER REALLY MOVES." -- THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"ELMORE LEONARD GETS SO MUCH MILEAGE OUT OF HIS PLOT THAT JUST WHEN YOU THINK ONE IS CRUISING TO A STOP, IT PICKS UP SPEED FOR A FEW MORE TWISTS AND TURNS." -- WASHINGTON POST

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Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser. HE COULD GET HIMSELF KILLED TWO WAYS: CHASING AFTER THE RICH MAN'S WIFE... OR THE RICH MAN'S MONEY. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380646420 (Septbember, 1983 / 3rd printing, no date given), 283 p., $2.95.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser (USA 1982)

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From "the finest thriller writer alive," (The Village Voice), Elmore Leonard's newest and most meticulously crafted novel of the world of crime reinforces the chorus of acclaim that recently greeted the publication of Split Images, about which John D. MacDonald said: "Elmore Leonard can really write. He is astonishingly good. He gives full value."

It is sixteen years since the Dominican revolution, but for ex-Marine George Moran the carefully preserved memory of an exquisite female sniper inexorably draws him back from Miami to the alien killing ground that has now become one of the world's ripest theaters of intrigue, double-dealing and ruthless homicide.

In a climax as unpredictable as it is exemplary of Elmore Leonard's remarkable talents, CAT CHASER rings with the authentic backgrounds and faultless dialogue that have established the author as a major contemporary novelist, one to rank with John D. MacDonald, George V. Higgins and Raymond Chandler.

ELMORE LEONARD's novels include Split Images and City Primeval, both published by Arbor House. He makes his home in Birmingham, Michigan.

Elmore Leonard: Cat Chaser. A Novel. New York: Arbor House, 1982, ISBN: 0877953988, 283 p., $13.50.