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Loading... The Hunted (original 1977; edition 2003)by Elmore Leonard (Author)
Work InformationThe Hunted by Elmore Leonard (1977)
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) rjdycus | Dec 19, 2022 |  I got confused at a few points regarding setting and geography, but I'm guessing that's my lack of experience with big cities, let alone Israel, more than anything. In addition, I couldn't help but think about Davis (my pick for the best character): would a Marine really get involved with this kind of stuff, these kinds of people? But then: does it really matter in a story like this? There is a line during the ending sequence (which was great, and more than a little Western-like) that I think really sums up Elmore Leonard action scenes and endings, from what I can tell. It is the start of a chapter, and it goes like this, verbatim: (TWO THINGS WERE HAPPENING at the same time.) (  ) J.E.Schier | Oct 12, 2022 | ) asxz | Mar 13, 2019 |  ) Gimley_Farb | Jul 6, 2015 | But this novel isn't set in Detroit, or even in the US. It's set in Israel, but with a primarily American cast of characters. Good read, though it's not one of Elmore's best. (  ) dickmanikowski | Sep 16, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML: "Wonderful...razor-sharp." "Excellent....A plot and a chase as good as anything he has ever written." In Elmore Leonard's The Hunted, "crime fiction's greatest living practitioner" (Washington Post) carries the action far from his usual Detroit, Miami, and Los Angeles milieus, all the way to the Middle East. There no lack of excitement and suspenseâ??and the trademark Leonard dialogueâ??in this superior tale of a fugitive hiding under the radar in Israel, until a well-publicized Good Samaritan act attracts the unwanted attention of well-armed Motown mobsters who are now coming to get him. The author who introduced the world to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (in his novels Pronto and Riding the Rap, before the lawman became the star of the hit TV drama Justified), the Grand Master shows why the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel calls him "the all-time king of the whack job crime novelists," and goes on to say that "Elmore Leonard tops them all"...including John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Robert B. Parker, and quite possibly every major mystery writer the U.S. has ever produced No library descriptions found. |
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