Swag

A delightful 'crime caper! A car salesman and a petty crook go on a crime spree in Detroit, that leads them to bigger (and badder?) things. Elmore slays it, with some great dialogue throughout. Is it just me, or is Leonard's work easy to put down, as it never fully engaged me? 6 out of 12, Three Sta......more

Frank Ryan is working as a used car salesman when he catches Ernest Stickly, Jr.--"Stick"--boosting a car from the lot. Frank picks Stick out of a lineup, and the cops seem to have Stick dead to rights, but when the case comes to trial, Frank takes the stand and claims that he's no longer sure about......more

Dialogue can really make or break a novel for me. Good thing Elmore Leonard could write it so well I'd imagine even Tarantino gets jealous occasionally. In fact, this novel as a whole reminded me of 90s-era Tarantino, to the point where I was actually picturing Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs charac......more

If you're looking for fast reads and entertainment, Leonard is your man. I was shocked by how quickly I finished Swag. For entertainment alone I'd give it five stars, the reason I am only giving it four is that it didn't have any emotional draw for me. It's not like I felt a connection with any of t......more

We're so used to Elmore Leonard being an icon of modern crime fiction that it's hard to remember that back in the 1960s and 1970s he was just another genre author, more known for his Westerns than the crime novels he began turning out in 1969. It's even harder to remember that he didn't spring out o......more