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Bandits

Elmore Leonard

1987345 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1987
first published
  • 1987Arbor House · 345 pages · ENGISBN 9780877958413
  • 1987G.K. Hall · 362 pages · ENGISBN 9780816142972
  • 1988Warner · 369 pages · ENGISBN 9780446301305
  • 1999Quill · 345 pages · ENGISBN 9780688166397
  • 2003HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780060563844
  • 2003HarperTorch · 448 pages · ENGISBN 9780060512200
  • 2011William Morrow Paperbacks · 368 pagesISBN 9780062120328
  • 1988Penguin Books Ltd · 352 pagesISBN 9780140099058

Working at his brother-in-law’s New Orleans funeral home isn’t reformed jewel thief Jack Delaney’s idea of excitement—until he’s dispatched to a leper’s hospital to pick up a corpse that turns out to be very much alive … and under the care of a beautiful, radical ex-nun in designer jeans. The “deceased” is the one-time squeeze of a Nicaraguan colonel who’s ordered her dead for trying to “infect” him, and Sister Lucy’s looking to spirit the young woman away from his guns and goons. Plus Lucy’s getting ideas about spiriting away some of the colonel’s millions as well—and someone with Jack Delaney’s talents could come in very handy indeed.

How it feels

AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

When and where

ThemesJustice
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