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Raylan - Elmore Leonard
Raylan
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The revered New York Times bestselling author, recognized as “America’s greatest crime writer” (Newsweek), brings back U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the mesmerizing hero of Pronto, Riding the Rap, and the hit FX series Justified. With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines,... show more
The revered New York Times bestselling author, recognized as “America’s greatest crime writer” (Newsweek), brings back U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the mesmerizing hero of Pronto, Riding the Rap, and the hit FX series Justified. With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross $300,000, but that’s chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get you—especially when it’s sold off piece by piece. So when Dickie and Coover Crowe, dope-dealing brothers known for sampling their own supply, decide to branch out into the body business, it’s up to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens to stop them. But Raylan isn’t your average marshal; he’s the laconic, Stetson-wearing, fast-drawing lawman who juggles dozens of cases at a time and always shoots to kill. But by the time Raylan finds out who’s making the cuts, he’s lying naked in a bathtub, with Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. The bad guys are mostly gals this time around: Layla, the nurse who collects kidneys and sells them for ten grand a piece; Carol Conlan, a hard-charging coal-mine executive not above ordering a cohort to shoot point-blank a man who’s standing in her way; and Jackie Nevada, a beautiful sometime college student who can outplay anyone at the poker table and who suddenly finds herself being tracked by a handsome U.S. marshal. Dark and droll, Raylan is pure Elmore Leonard—a page-turner filled with the sparkling dialogue and sly suspense that are the hallmarks of this modern master.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780062119469 (006211946X)
ASIN: 006211946X
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Pages no: 263
Edition language: English
Series: Raylan Givens (#3)
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EricCWelch
EricCWelch rated it
3.0 The paperwork would be enough to kill most....
Fans of the TV Series “Justified” (I am) will recognize all of the plots in this set of short stories tied together only by Raylan’s presence: the nurse selling kidneys, the coal mining VP trying to get contracts signed, etc. (He barely figures in the story about the poker-playing girl.) I regret Le...
Christy Herself
Christy Herself rated it
4.0 Raylan
A bit different than the other Raylan novels because we had about three scenarios going on. The novel seemed a bit like the actual series this time in that way. You also have Art and Boyd Crowder in this one. I'm really unsure when this book was published in conjunction with where the series was ...
Novel Tease
Novel Tease rated it
2.0
Disappointing. This is not a novel, it's a novella and two somewhat related short stories - and it reads like what it probably is: the season opening two-part episode of the series "Justified" followed by two single episodes. Meh!
the terror of whatever
the terror of whatever rated it
1.0
This is such a strange and awkward cultural artifact that I hardly know what to do with it. The book is called Raylan, set in the typeface from Justified the TV show, and there’s our man Timothy Olyphant on the cover. We are led to think this is a novel that takes place in the universe of Justified ...
Reading Slothfully
Reading Slothfully rated it
3.0 Raylan
This book seems a bit of a mishmash of several stories, all involving a US Marshall named Raylan Givens. Apparently, there is a TV series about this guy. The stories were mildly interesting. Raylan grew up a sho 'nuff hillbilly coal miner in Eastern Kentucky, but left for a better life, so to speak....
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