

The Law at Randado
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
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
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.
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
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
If you enjoy westerns 1950-1980 you should engoy this unspectacular realism......more
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