Touch

Name: Touch
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Elmore Leonard
ISBN: 9780061993787

Author: Elmore Leonard

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 6 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/10/2012

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Touch is sensational suspense from the master of crime fiction, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. A Michigan woman was blind and now she can see, after being touched by a young man who calls himself Juvenal. Maybe it was just coincidence, but Bill Hill—who used to run the spectacular Uni-Faith Ministry in Dalton, Georgia, and now sells RVs—can see dollar signs when he looks at this kid with the magic “touch.”The trouble is that others see them also, including a wacko fundamentalist fascist with his own private army of the faithful and an assortment of media leeches. But everyone who’s looking to put the touch on the healer is in for a big surprise—because Juvenal’s got a trick or two up his sleeve that nobody sees coming.

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 George Guidall

George Guidall is one of the foremost narrators in the audiobook industry, having recorded over 500 unabridged books ranging from classics to contemporary bestsellers. He is the recipient of the 1999 Audie Award presented by the Audio Publishers Association for the best narration of unabridged fiction.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Jamie on 2009-07-16 16:43:35

Boring and too religious - characters were hard to connect to - didn't even finish - every time I picked it up it put me to sleep.

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on June 20, 2017

Meh. ‘Touch’ treads water for a hundred pages introducing conventional stock American characters who work in media jobs generating publicity for TV talk shows or evangelical or conservative Catholic Church ministry interests. Then the story turns into a series of low-key humorous sketches of romantic......more

Goodreads review by Gary on July 15, 2022

Well, Good Readers, I am at a loss as to what I think of this Leonard novel. As he himself explains in the introduction, he had a difficult time finding a publisher for this one, and when he finally did, the publisher held on to it for over two years because they didn’t know how to “label” it. You k......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on October 18, 2022

How did I not know Elmore wrote a book on faith healing and faith and Southern evangelists and stigmata! I’m going to say it’s in my top five of his books, because I had no idea he had one like this in him and I’m so glad he did.......more

Goodreads review by Luana on January 21, 2019

If you don't read Leonard for a while, you forget how fun and fast-paced his books can be. Touch has an introduction by the man himself telling the reader this book had been shelved for 10 years (!) due to its minor magical realism content about a guy who could heal by touch. The publisher just didn......more

Goodreads review by Max on December 18, 2017

A novel about a faith healer is a surprise coming from Leonard. I wasn’t at all sure what to expect, but I was pleased with what I found. And I appreciated Leonard’s approach to miracles and faith—it was respectful where many other writers would’ve gone the popular route of shallow mockery. The prota......more