Rum Punch
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:5th Jun '25
Should be back in stock very soon
From America's top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino's hit film JACKIE BROWN
Jackie, a flight attendant with a serious side hustle, is about to get grounded...
She’s just got busted smuggling large amounts of hot money on the Caribbean-Florida run, and now the Feds are pressuring her to turn informant – but Ordell Robbie, the highly dysfunctional arms-dealer she works for, is not getting any more functional. With the help of disillusioned bail bondsman Max Cherry, could she outsmart her pursuers and walk away from the whole wreckage, happy and rich in the process? In a high-stakes game of risk, whose rum has the hardest punch?
A trio of Elmore Leonard crime novels show that, for all his concision and aptitude for depicting violence, the magic of his prose lies in wit and charm -- John Self * The Observer *
PRAISE FOR ELMORE LEONARD * - *
The crime writer’s crime writer, King of all he surveys -- Ian Rankin
Cool talk, hot action… it’s impossible not to love Elmore Leonard * LA Times *
The hottest thriller writer in the US * TIME *
The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever * The New York Times Book Review *
Leonard is a genius * The New York Times *
Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today * The New York Times *
Leonard provides the fizziest and cleverest dialogue in crime fiction. A total delight * The Times *
He’s set the standard against which all other crime novels are measured * The New York Times *
ISBN: 9780241755402
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 16mm
Weight: 202g
272 pages