Stick

A little beauty of a story.A hot fast read with pungent characters. Los Angeles Times A slam-bang no-bull action thrillerand nobody but nobody writes better dialogue. New York Daily News Its an established fact: Elmore Leonard is the uncontested master of the crime thriller (Washington Post ) who does crime fiction better than anyone (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and nowhere is this more obvious than in the pages of Stick. One of his most acclaimed noir masterworks it is the story of ex-con Ernest Stick Stickley whos nudged from the straight-and-narrow path when a big time drug dealer randomly selects him to die and a perfect revenge/payday opportunity presents itself. The author of Raylan featuring U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens the sometimes trigger-happy protagonist of TVs Justified Leonard is indeed the king holding court with the best of the best including Coban and Connally and the late great John D. MacDonald Dashiell Hammett James M. Cain and Robert B. Parker.