Stick, Elmore Leonard
Stick, Elmore Leonard
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Stick

Author: Elmore Leonard

Narrator: Frank Muller

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/10/2012


Synopsis

“A little beauty of a story….A hot, fast read with pungent characters.”
—Los Angeles Times“A slam-bang, no-bull action thriller…and nobody but nobody writes better dialogue.”
—New York Daily NewsIt’s 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 who’s 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 TV’s 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.

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on October 06, 2022

Readers first met Ernest Stickley, Jr. in Swag where Stickley was teamed up with Frank Ryan. Ryan had developed a list of rules and promised Stick that if they followed the rules they could be a very successful team of armed robbers. For a month or so they were untouchable but then they broke the ru......more

Goodreads review by Greg on July 23, 2010

If you were reading my reviews about six months ago, you may remember when I went through a phase of choosing books to read that I wanted to get rid of. Well, I'm doing it again. I have a pile of books on my floor that I generally don't want to read, but they are also books that I have some desire t......more

Goodreads review by Christina on April 08, 2023

So I've come to the conclusion that this just isn't my type of book.......more

Goodreads review by Tom on May 22, 2020

When he was on form, no-one could match him. This is Elmore hitting something near full power. Grubby, brilliantly drawn characters, great plotting and bloody hilarious. Some of the dialogue and the character descriptions are so skillfully done. I could quote a hundred lines from this book that left......more

Goodreads review by Jim on April 28, 2022

The more colorful and cool these people are, the less they register with the reader. This reader, anyway. And that gave this novel as a certain indifferent, cruise-control, plug-and-play vibe that made it about as essential as the sine-wave shimmer of the Florida heat in summer. STICK's Ernest Stick......more