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- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- Narrator
- Mark Hammer
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 5 June 2025
- Run Time
- 7 hours 37 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore Leonard
Mickey is bored and angry with her life as a housewife in suburban Detroit, trapped with her dreary, golf-obsessed husband. Then she is kidnapped by a deeply unimpressive criminal gang who want to trade her for a huge ransom from her—as it turns out—crooked husband. But what if she doesn’t really mind being kidnapped?
© Elmore Leonard 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Critics Review
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The chaotic, blackly comic story is carried aloft on Leonard’s cool, easy prose... Elmore Leonard’s centenary year is the ideal time to discover, or rediscover, the prolific American western and crime writer whose work – fuelled by wit, charm, action and dialogue – dominated cinema screens in the 1990s
The Observer's 20 Books to Read this Summer
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A trio of Elmore Leonard crime novels show that, for all his concision and aptitude for depicting violence, the magic of his prose lies in wit and charm
The Observer
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PRAISE FOR ELMORE LEONARD
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The crime writer’s crime writer, King of all he surveys
Ian Rankin
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Cool talk, hot action … it’s impossible not to love Elmore Leonard
LA Times
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The hottest thriller writer in the US
TIME
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The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever
The New York Times Book Review
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Leonard is a genius
The New York Times
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Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today
The New York Times
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Leonard provides the fizziest and cleverest dialogue in crime fiction. A total delight
The Times
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Details
- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- Narrator
- Mark Hammer
- Duration
- 7 hours 37 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 June 2025
- ISBN
- 9781837310326
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore LeonardMickey is bored and angry with her life as a housewife in suburban Detroit, trapped with her dreary, golf-obsessed husband. Then she is kidnapped by a deeply unimpressive criminal gang who want to trade her for a huge ransom from her—as it turns out—crooked husband. But what if she doesn’t really mind being kidnapped?© Elmore Leonard 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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