The Law at Randado

Name: The Law at Randado
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Elmore Leonard
ISBN: 9780062683069

Author: Elmore Leonard

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/21/2017

Categories: Fiction, Western, Crime, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a green local kid with a tin badge. And when the wealthy cattle baron's men drag two prisoners from Frye's jail and hang them from a high tree, there's nothing the young lawman can do about it. But Kirby's got more grit than Sundeen and his hired muscle bargained for. They can beat the boy and humiliate him, but they can't make him forget the oath he has sworn to uphold. The cattleman has money, power, and guns on his side, but Kirby Frye is the law in this corner of the Arizona Territories, and he'll drive a rich man to his knees to prove it.

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 Edwin

A young and and inexperienced deputy sheriff named Kirby Frye has his skills tested when a rich and arrogant rancher and some citizens of Randado conspire to entrust themselves with lawmaking and executions while he’s away. The narrative is nicely dialog driven with plenty of colorful and insightful......more

Goodreads review by Heath

I believe this is Leonard's second novel, written in the early '50's, and as such doesn't really display the trademark humor and terrific dialogue we know him for. For all that, though, it's still very well-written, spare and lean, befitting the Arizona setting. A group of Randado's prominent citizen......more

Goodreads review by William

If you enjoy westerns 1950-1980 you should engoy this unspectacular realism......more

Goodreads review by Piker7977

The Law at Randado is a good western that meditates the role of law and order in a small community. Who are the enforcers? What happens when the leaders are challenged? What causes tension between civil servants and the will of the people? This is one of those western romps that treads a little in t......more