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Well-known South Miami Beach bookie Harry Arno was grossing seven thousand a week running sports bets.  He split fifty-fifty with local wiseguy Jimmy Capotorto, aka Jimmy Cap, but by skimming off the top for twenty years, Harry had stashed away enough to retire.  Everything was set for his... show more
Well-known South Miami Beach bookie Harry Arno was grossing seven thousand a week running sports bets.  He split fifty-fifty with local wiseguy Jimmy Capotorto, aka Jimmy Cap, but by skimming off the top for twenty years, Harry had stashed away enough to retire.  Everything was set for his name-change and vanishing act to the Italian Riviera with his girlfirend, Joyce (Joy, when she was a topless dancer), right after the Super Bowl.  Harry Arno felt like a lucky man.He felt wrong.  An FBI assault on organized crime had targeted Jimmy Cap, and Harry was set up as the fall guy to help them do it.  Now "Zip," a Sicilian in a classic black suit, had a reason to want Harry dead.  Raylan Givens, a Stetson-wearing U.S. marshal, had the job of keeping him alive.  And from Miami to Rapallo, Italy,  Harry Arno had plans of his own to clean up the past, guarantee his future...and let drawling Raylan Givens go one-on-one across two continents with the mob.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780440295280 (0440295289)
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 373
Edition language: English
Series: Raylan Givens (#1)
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Community Reviews
EricCWelch
EricCWelch rated it
3.5 Where the Fuck are the Stirrups?
An incongruous story at best. A modern cowboy wanna-be, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, has taken off for Italy in pursuit of Harry who is being sought by a number of felons who want to do him harm. I started reading the Raylan Givens series after reading an interview with Elmore Leonard who rem...
Death by Books
Death by Books rated it
This was my first exposure to an Elmore Leonard book. Initially, I was put off my his very "unwriterly" means of writing. I loved the dialogue though, so I kept reading along. For the most part, I really liked Raylan and Joyce. Harry was a prick and I would have let the mob have him.The story wa...
Christy Herself
Christy Herself rated it
4.0 Pronto
I enjoyed it; it is different from what you might be used to from the series because it is set before the events depicted in "Fire in the Hole" (though the ending of this book strongly resembles the initial set of events in Justified that send Raylan back to Kentucky).Great story line and interestin...
So Many Books...So Little Time!
So Many Books...So Little Time! rated it
4.0
What took me so long to read Elmore Leonard? This was fantastic, loved it from start to finish. Raylan Givens is a great character, so good I might even watch the TV show that features him. Headed to the library to get the next one...
Redacted
Redacted rated it
I liked this one quite a bit but I like Raylan Givens a lot. This is the first book starring the throwback Deputy Marshall and it is pretty much what you would expect. The characters are excellent, the dialog pops, the story move right along to a satisfying ending. Elmore Leonard is a goddamned geni...
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