Elmore Leonard
1) Pronto
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 1
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"The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from 'Jimmy Cap' Capotorto--which he is, but everybody does it. Harry was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so he figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky--the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody--but not careful. So Raylan's...
2) Road dogs
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After prison buddy Cundo Rey drops a bundle on a shark attorney, celebrity bank robber Jack Foley gets his 30-year prison sentence reduced to 30 months. Jack's quickly back in the world, living large in one of Cundo's two multimillion-dollar houses in Venice, Calif., juggling a fast seduction with fortune-teller Dawn Navarro (who is now Cundo's lady) and the untoward attention of rogue FBI agent Lou Adams, who's waiting for Foley to rob another bank....
3) Swag
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The smallest of small-time criminals, Ernest Stickley Jr. figures his luck's about to change when Detroit used car salesman Frank Ryan catches him trying to boost a ride from Ryan's lot. Frank's got some surefire schemes for getting rich quick-all of them involving guns-and all Stickley has to do is follow "Ryan's Rules" to share the wealth. But sometimes rules need to be bent, maybe even broken, if one is to succeed in the world of crime, especially...
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1995
Description
'Elmore Leonard may be the greatest crime novelist in the world,' declares the Seattle Times, and truer words have never been written. Just follow the Grand Master of mystery and suspense to Florida's Gold Coast and you'll quickly discover that it's so. In this classic Elmore Leonard thriller, a beautiful mafia widow stands to lose everything her late mob boss husband left her if she succumbs to her desire for an attractive Detroit ex-con-so the two...
6) Hombre
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society.
7) 3:10 to Yuma
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
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Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail,...
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Library of America volume 267
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The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2015]
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City primeval : Ride down Woodward Avenue into the Motor City, toward a deadly show-down between dedicated homicide detective Raymond Cruz and a psychopathic murderer, "Oklahoma Wildman" Clement Mansell, who picked the wrong town to kill someone, even if it was only a crooked judge.
LaBrava : Ex-Secret Service agent Joe LaBrava gets involved in a Miami Beach flimflam including among others, a Cuban killer and a once famous actress.
Glitz : A story...
14) Get Shorty
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmakerHarry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
15) Life of crime
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Lions Gate Entertainment Inc./Roadside Attractions
Pub. Date
[2014]
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The wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he'd actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and twists.
16) 3:10 to Yuma
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Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Outlaw leader Ben Wade is captured in a small town and Dan Evans, a poor rancher takes on the job of escorting Wade by train to Yuma, knowing that Wade's gang is waiting for the chance to free him.
17) Be cool
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MGM Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2005]
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Chili Palmer is tired of the producing movies after being forced to make a useless sequel. When a music producer friend is gunned down, he offers to help his widow run the business. Checking out a talented singer that his friend had been talking to him about puts Chili at odds with her sleazy music manager, his gay bodyguard, and his equally sleazy partner. The mismanagement of the music company also gets Chili threatened by members of the Russian...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent,...
20) Jackie Brown
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Quentin Tarantino scores with an explosive mix of intense action and edgy humor in his "twisty crime yarn" (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY). What do a sexy stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, an earnest federal agent, and a stoned-out beach bunny have in common? They're six players on the trail of a half million dollars in cash! The only questions are...who's getting played...and who's gonna make the big score?