Elmore Leonard: Hombre & Three-Ten to Yuma (UK 2025)

From the Publisher:
A remote stage-coach station is closing down and a small group of travellers are thrown together on the last wagon out: the mysterious Doctor Favor and his wife, a traumatised girl, a brutal stranger called Braden, the station manager, the sharp-eyed young narrator and John Russell, known simply as 'Hombre'. The reader can be quietly confident that some of these travellers will not be reaching their destination alive.

This superb Western, published in 1961, was one of the novels that made Elmore Leonard's reputation as someone who had single-handedly revived the genre. It was made into a film starring Paul Newman.

Also included is Leonard's celebrated short story 'Three-Ten to Yuma'.

Elmore Leonard: Hombre & Three-Ten to Yuma. Penguin Modern Classics ISBN: 9780241755358 (November, 2025), 160 p., £10.99.

Elmore Leonard: Hombre (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
John Russell was raised as an Apache, and even served as a member of the tribal police. Now the time has come for him to leave the San Carlos reservation far behind and live again as a white man. The stagecoach passengers he's traveling with want nothing to do with this man they call "Hombre," forcing him to ride in the boot with the driver. But they change their tune when outlaws ride down on them. Suddenly they all must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to survive in the desert. They shunned John Russell, and now they must follow him... or die.

Elmore Leonard: Hombre. A classic tale of the American West. William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780062206114 (August, 2012), 184 p., $14.99.

Elmore Leonard: Hombre (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
A CLASSIC TALE OF THE AMERICAN WEST
John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him. That is, until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert. He can't ride with them, but they must walk with him or die...

Hombre was made into the classic Western starring Paul Newman. Crackling with Leonard's trademark dialogue, and set against a beautifully evoked landscape, it captures the wild and glorious spirit of the American West.

'Writers don't come cooler than Elmore Leonard, with Hollywood players from Tarantino to Malkovich beating a path to his door' -- The Times

Elmore Leonard: Hombre. Orion Books, ISBN: 9780753819111 (October, 2011), 168 p., £8.99.

Elmore Leonard: Hombre (UK 2005)

From the Publisher:
John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him.

That is, until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert. He can't ride with them, but they must walk with him or die...

Elmore Leonard: Hombre. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752864378 (March, 2005), 168 p., £6.99.

Elmore Leonard: Hombre (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him -- until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert. He can't ride with them, but they must walk with him or die.

Elmore Leonard: Hombre. Harpertorch, ISBN: 0380822245 (May, 2002), 201 p., $5.99.

Elmore Leonard: Hombre (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
John Russell was a man used to angry looks and cruel names. He walked through life with pride and in silence -- a man who stood apart, lived alone, and carried his gun like an Apache, always at his side.

But on that last stage out of Sweetmary, four white men and women pushed this stranger as far as he would go. Simmering on that stage was hatred, and waiting in ambush were outlaws.

And in the burning center of the Arizona desert, John Russell taught them all why he alone had earned the name...

Elmore Leonard: Hombre. Indians gave him his name - out of respect. White men gave him respect - out of fear. Ballantine Western, ISBN: 0345316061 (August, 1984), 190 p., $2.75.

Elmore Leonard: Hombre (USA 1974)

From the Publisher:
The way John Russell looked, he could have been a full-blooded Indian. Anyway, he had lived among the Apache and that was as much as most people needed to know. They didn't want any part of John Russell.

Russell didn't give a damn. He knew who he was and he knew how he wanted to live. He was going to live among the whites because, white or Indian, he had a perfect right to.

But as it turned out, there was another way for John Russell to prove how much man he was...

Elmore Leonard: Hombre. Ballantine Western 23887 (5th printing April, 1974), 190 p., 95¢.