Elmore Leonard Knihy

Najväčší autor kriminálnych románov od čias Raymonda Chandlera, ktorý sa stal kedysi inšpiračným zdrojom Quentina Tarantina, ale aj ďalších filmárov, ponúka po detektívke Buď v pohode v edícii Krimi ďalšie zo svojich strhujúcich a autentických svedectiev zo sveta zločinu. Jack Ryan, hlavný hrdina tohto príbehu považuje život za plážové dobrodružstvo - ako surfera a príležitostného zlodeja ho v havajskom Oahu osloví tajomná krásavica, ktorá mu predostrie jednoduchý plán - vďaka nemu sa z nich môže stať pár.

Hollywoodsky producent Chili Palmer, bývalý gangster, zažil veľký triumf a veľké fiasko. Zúfalo hľadá nový filmový hit. Keď bývalý jeho spoločník skončí s guľkou v hlave, Chilimu sa otvárajú nové možnosti. Smrť nahrávacieho mogula zavedie Chiliho do pokriveného sveta rockových hviezd, popových primadon a hiphopových gangstríkov, sveta plného žiarlivosti a zrady. Chili Palmer začína s novým filmom a ľudia okolo neho začínajú zomierať...

Photographer Joe LaBrava specialises in capturing the soul of Miami's street life & since he used to do dirty jobs for the government, he understands his subject very well. So when his friend Maury enlists his help to sort out a problem with an ex-film star, Joe is more than happy to help.

Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara have lots in common - time in the same gaol, convictions for auto theft, and a grand plan. They're going to snatch the wife of a Detroit developer and collect some easy ransom money. At least that's what they think...What they haven't figured on is the fact that the husband has a secret mistress and has absolutely no desire to get his wife back. So now it's time for Plan B. With the help of one seriously ticked-off housewife they are going to take the scumbag for everything he's got...

Armand Degas is a Mafia hit man the guys call Blackbird. He is cool and composed and knows a good score. So when punk crook Richie Nix tells him about his surefire scheme to extort $10,000 from a middle-of-nowhere Michigan real estate agent, Armand signs on. What the two thugs don't count on is Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband, Wayne, being in the real estate office when they go in to collect. Now Carmen and Wayne know too much and Armand has no intention of letting them survive to tell about it. But Wayne's sure the local cops are going to fumble the manhunt, and the best the feds can offer is the Witness Security Program. Now it's come down to one man, one woman, and two killers ... and someone's bound to end up on the wrong end of the gun.

In Miami, Chili Palmer was a gangster, but now he's in Hollywood, helping his friend Harry Zimm to make a film. However, the movie business is as dangerous as Chili's old business and a new enemy soon wants him out of the way.

Valdez Is The shotgun went off aimed at the wrong man, held in the wrong man's hands. A crowd had gathered to drink and laugh and shoot down at the old shack where a supposed killer was hiding out. Then Bob Valdez, humble town constable and stage-line shotgun rider, walked down to the shack. Moments later Valdez had killed an innocent man, and the crowd, sapped of its bloodlust, wandered off. But for Bob Valdez it was far from over. He wanted the wealthy landowner who had enginnered the scene to give the dead man's woman money for a wrongful death. They laughed at Bob Valdez. They taunted him and beat him until Valdez had no choice but to come back to them again. Only this time Valdez was coming with three guns--three guns and the will to teach a rich man's army how costly atonement can get. Set in Arizona mining country, Hombre is the story of a stagecoach held up by outlaws. One of the passengers, John Russell, is a white man who was raised partly by Apache Indians, and knows first hand the indignities suffered by them at the hands of the whites who control the reservations. He has also learned to live and fight like an Apache. Combatting the outlaws, Russell finds himself faced with the decision of whether to save only himself or to save his fellow white passengers. John Russell becomes the key player in a drama examining man's responsibilities to his fellow man, acted out on a dusty stage in America's Wild West.

Elmore Leonard first made his name as a writer of western stories, and this collection brings them together for the first time. They date back to 1951, and include 3:10 to Yuma which was made into a classic film.