Switch

<p>My favorite Leonard book....He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew better ears for dialogue. <br />--<em>Dallas Morning News</em></p><p>The best writer of crime fiction alive. <br />--<em>Newsweek</em></p><p>Dangerously eccentric characters razor-sharp black humor brilliant dialog and suspense all rolled into one tight package--that's <em>The Switch</em> Elmore Leonard's classic tale of a kidnapping gone wrong...or terribly right depending on how you look at it. The Grand Master whom the <em>New York Times Book Review </em>calls the greatest crime writer of our time perhaps ever has written a wry and twisting tale that any of the other all-time greats--Dashiell Hammett Raymond Chandler John D. MacDonald James M. Cain Robert Parker...every noir author who ever walked a detective cop or criminal into a shadowy alley--would be thrilled to call their own. Leonard the man who has given us U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (currently starring in TV's <em>Justified</em>) is at his storytelling best as a spurned wife decides to take a rightful--and profitable--revenge on her deceiving hubby by teaming up with the two thugs he hired to abduct her.<br /></p>