

Books in series

#1
The Big Bounce
1969
Together with a tough young drifter named Jack Ryan, hedonistic Nancy Hayes plans her private revenge on on a former lover by stealing a fifty-thousand-dollar payroll. Reissue. (A Warner Bros. film, releasing Winter 2004, directed by George Armitage, starring Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Bebe Neuwirth, Charlie Sheen, & Harry Dean Stanton) (Suspense)

#2
Unknown Man #89
1977
“No one is Leonard’s equal,” declares the Chicago Tribune—and anyone who might doubt it would only have to read Elmore Leonard’s riveting noir classic, Unknown Man #89, to become a true believer.
The twisty tale of a Detroit process server whose search for a missing stockholder leads him into more serious peril than he ever imagined possible, Unknown Man #89 is a gourmet stew of mystery, suspense, and double and triple cross, peppered with the razor sharp dialogue for which Grand Master Leonard is justifiably famous.
Exhilarating old-school crime fiction that the late, great John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker would have been proud to call their own, Unknown Man #89 is a gem—nothing less than we’d expect from the man who created the incomparable U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified.
Author

Elmore Leonard
Author · 71 books
Elmore John Leonard lived in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Memphis before settling in Detroit in 1935. After serving in the navy, he studied English literature at the University of Detroit where he entered a short story competition. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Father of Peter Leonard.