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Three previously unpublished stories by the master of tense set-ups. These three stories—Picket Line, 'Chick Killer', and 'Ice Man'—show Elmore Leonard at his most terse and harsh, able to conjure up a sense of profound unease and injustice in just a few words. The main story...
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Three previously unpublished stories by the master of tense set-ups.
These three stories—Picket Line, 'Chick Killer', and 'Ice Man'—show Elmore Leonard at his most terse and harsh, able to conjure up a sense of profound unease and injustice in just a few words.
The main story Picket Line describes a tense stand-off between migrant workers in Texas, police, and labour organisers in a brilliantly orchestrated series of arguments and negotiations, with the potential for terrible violence lurking in every exchange.
'Chick Killer' and 'Ice Man', set in Florida and California, are two riffs on the thing that made Leonard great—his extraordinary ear for creating dialogues of negotiation, where the stakes could not be higher for the loser.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780241755396
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 91g
Pages: 112
About the Author
Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) began his long and extraordinary career as a writer of Westerns, most famously a story which was made into the film 3-10 To Yuma. He then became known for his remarkable sequence of crime novels, generally set in Michigan or Florida. A master of funny and threatening dialogue, his influence has been incalculable. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN US and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
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