Valdez Is Coming
1970
First Published
4.05
Average Rating
200
Number of Pages
They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to deal with the problem—and made sure he had no choice but to gun the fugitive down. Trouble was, Valdez killed an innocent man. And when he asked for justice—and some money for the dead man's woman—they beat Valdez and tied him to a cross. They were still laughing when Valdez came back. And then they began to die...
Avg Rating
4.05
Number of Ratings
3,162
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3 STARS
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Author
Elmore Leonard
Author · 64 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.
