Road Dogs, Elmore Leonard
Road Dogs, Elmore Leonard
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Road Dogs

Author: Elmore Leonard

Narrator: Peter Francis James

Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/12/2009

Synopsis

“Road Dogs is terrific, and Elmore Leonard is in a class of one.”
—Dennis Lehane, author of Shutter Island and Mystic River “You know from the first sentence that you’re in the hands of the original Daddy Cool....This one’ll kill you.”
—Stephen King Elmore Leonard is eternal. In Road Dogs, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award winner and “America’s greatest crime master” (Newsweek) brings back three of his favorite characters—Jack Foley from Out of Sight, Cundo Rey from La Brava, and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap—for a twisting, explosive, always surprising masterwork of crime fiction the San Francisco Chronicle calls, “a sly, violent, funny and superbly written story of friendship, greed, and betrayal.”

About Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard wrote more than forty books during his long career, including the bestsellers Raylan, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool, Get Shorty, and Rum Punch, as well as the acclaimed collection When the Women Come Out to Dance, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight. The short story “Fire in the Hole,” and three books, including Raylan, were the basis for the FX hit show Justified. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He died in 2013.

About Peter Francis James

Peter Francis James has starred in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions, as well as on such television programs as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, New York Undercover and State of Affairs.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Francesc on December 23, 2021

La novela destaca, sobre todo, por la creación de personajes y por sus diálogos. El trío protagonista es excepcional. Cundo, el cubano mafioso; Dawn, la vidente y Foley, el atracador de bancos atractivo y seductor. No obstante, el resto de personajes aportan mucho a la novela: Tico, el pandillero; el......more

Goodreads review by K on July 25, 2024

3.5 stars, rounded up for the simple fact that an Elmore Leonard novel has the ability to transport the reader to another place and time, regardless of the degree to which credulity has been stretched. This novel is probably better enjoyed after reading Out of Sight, La Brava and Riding The Rap. Hav......more

Goodreads review by Brian on January 17, 2025

Jack Foley and Cundo Rey are serving time in the Glades Correctional Facility, Foley for armed robbery and Cundo for second degree murder. Rey is trying to convince Foley to come live in Venice Beach when they get out. Cundo is rich, and pays his attorney $30,000 to file an appeal to get Foley's sen......more

Goodreads review by James on November 16, 2024

In Road Dogs, Elmore Leonard reunites characters from several earlier novels, principally Jack Foley, the All-American bank robber from "Out of Sight." When last seen, Jack was headed off for a thirty-year stretch in the pen, having been shot in the leg and captured by his one-time lover, Marshall K......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on August 07, 2010

Out of Sight was one of my favorite Elmore Leonard novels (and a great movie despite having Jennifer Lopez in it) so I was really excited to hear that Jack Foley would be a character in this one along with a couple of other Leonard characters from other books, Dawn Navvaro from Riding the Rap and Cu......more

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