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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

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
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
PRAISE FOR ELMORE LEONARD
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The crime writer’s crime writer, King of all he surveys
Ian Rankin
Cool talk, hot action … it’s impossible not to love Elmore Leonard
LA Times
The hottest thriller writer in the US
TIME
The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever
The New York Times Book Review
Leonard is a genius
The New York Times
Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today
The New York Times
Leonard provides the fizziest and cleverest dialogue in crime fiction. A total delight
The Times
Author Elmore Leonard
Narrator Mark Hammer
Duration 7 hours and 37 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781837310326
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Availability AU, GB, IE

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