Fire in the Hole: Stories Author: Visit Amazon's Elmore Leonard Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0062120344 | Format: EPUB
Fire in the Hole: Stories Description
Review
“If Leonard were a new kid instead of a past master, this fiction collection would make his name.” (People)
“Rummaging through Leonard’s attic via these nine stories revives some fond memories and turns up a couple of forgotten treasures.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Elmore Leonard’s 39th book ...finds one of America’s most accomplished novelists presenting his most accomplished female characters in years.” (USA Today)
From the Back Cover
In this superb short fiction collection, Elmore Leonard, “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever” (New York Times Book Review), once again illustrates how the line between the law and the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might think. In the title story, the basis for the hit FX series Justified, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens meets up with an old friend, but they’re now on different sides of the law. Federal marshal Karen Sisco, from Out of Sight, returns in “Karen Makes Out,” once again inadvertently mixing pleasure with business. In “When the Women Come Out to Dance,” Mrs. Mahmood gets more than she bargains for when she conspires with her maid to end her unhappy marriage.
These nine stories are the great Elmore Leonard at his vivid, hilarious, and unfailingly human best.
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- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (January 3, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0062120344
- ISBN-13: 978-0062120342
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
This collection of short stories by Elmore Leonard was first published in 2002 under the title When the Women Come Out to Dance. Due to the success of the TV series Justified, it has been re-released under the title Fire in the Hole, as it includes the story of that name on which the TV show is based. "Fire in the Hole" is the only one of the nine stories in this collection to feature Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, but it is the one of the longest stories in the book and clearly the best. Raylan was previously featured in Leonard's novels Pronto and Riding the Rap. The former is much better than the latter, but "Fire in the Hole" tops them both. Raylan, who has served the U.S. Marshal Service in Miami for several years, is sent back to Harlan County, Kentucky, where he was born and raised, to take part in a task force aiming to take down Raylan's former friend Boyd Crowder, a white supremacist who robs banks and blows up churches. This is an excellent ensemble piece populated with all manner of intriguing redneck, good ol' boy, and latter-day cowboy lawman characters who exchange generous helpings of Leonard's delightfully scripted hillbilly repartee. It is a riveting ride, alternately comical and suspenseful. The story will be familiar to those who watch Justified, as the first few episodes of season one were quite faithful to Leonard's original narrative. Reading Leonard's incarnation of the story is a joy and a revelation.
Miami-based Marshal Karen Cisco has also had her own TV show and movie (Out of Sight). She's featured here in the story "Karen Makes Out," in which she finally finds a man she thinks she can fall in love with, only to discover soon after that he's a suspect in a series of bank robberies.
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