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| Original Title: | Out of Sight |
| ISBN: | 0060084103 (ISBN13: 9780060084103) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Raylan Givens, Ernest Stickley, Ray Nicolet, Vincent Mora, Harry Arno, Bren Early, Frank DiCilia, Chris Mankowski |
| Literary Awards: | Deutscher Krimi Preis for 3. Platz International (1999) |
Elmore Leonard
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.93 | 10188 Users | 400 Reviews
List Containing Books Out of Sight
| Title | : | Out of Sight |
| Author | : | Elmore Leonard |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | July 30th 2002 by HarperTorch (first published August 1st 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Thriller. Suspense |
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Before there was Raylan, there was Sisco... U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco is on the hunt for world-class gentleman felon Jack Foley in Out of Sight, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard’s sexy thriller that moves from Miami to the Motor City. Based on Miami, Florida's Gold Coast, U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco isn’t about to let a expert criminal like Jack Foley successfully bust out of Florida's Glades Prison. But there’s a major score waiting for him in Detroit, and a shotgun-wielding marshal isn’t going to stop Foley from getting it. Neither counted on sharing a cramped car trunk—or on a sizzling chemistry that’s working overtime. As soon as Sisco escapes, Foley is already missing her. Sisco can’t forget Foley either—and she isn’t about to let him go. Too bad the next time their paths cross, it’s going to be about business, not pleasure.Rating Containing Books Out of Sight
Ratings: 3.93 From 10188 Users | 400 ReviewsDiscuss Containing Books Out of Sight
The westerns or crime fiction by Elmore Leonard drift like the mouth watering aromas or sounds coming from a kitchen, but their pleasures do tend to fade as quickly for me. His books are conversations that are a joy to eavesdrop on, but don't usually provoke me as great literature. I can't say I've read a "great" novel by him. Until now. Published in 1996, Out of Sight not only introduces new characters and features dialogue and violence executed flawlessly, but is a beautiful realization of theanother fun elmore leonard novel, my second this year. it doesn't quite have the depth of the first one i read (killshot), but it's still an awful lot of fun.as is the case with the films he wrote back in the day (and as is expertly emulated in tv's justified), leonard writes with a clear affection for his characters. consider chino, the jail-breaking cuban with a minor vendetta against the main character. in a lesser writer's hands, he'd be a broadly sinister adversary - in leonard's, he gets a
This is in essence Leonard's Romeo and Julliet story in which a bankrobber and a US Marshall meet during a prison break and feel a strong mutual attraction. Which leads to some sloppy work by Karen Sisco, the Marshall, when it comes to Jack Foley the bankrobber. The story begins in a Florida prison and ends in a cold Detroit where the two will meet again and the ending is an unescapable one.A very well written book that does not fail to deliver. I admit having seen the movie quite a few times
3.5★Another guy, he goes in the bank holding a bottle he says is nitroglycerin. He scores some cash off a teller, he's on his way out when he drops the bottle. It shatters on the tile floor, he slips in the stuff, cracks his head and they've got him. The nitro was canola oil. I know more f**ked-up bank robbers than ones that know what they're doing.And there are more stories of stuffed-up jobs where this came from. Entertaining, good dialogue and action, but. . . I just couldnt bring myself to
Bank robber Jack Foley didn't plan to take U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco hostage when he escaped from prison, it just sort of happened. It's one of those in the wrong place at the wrong time scenarios. And as so often happens when two people spend any quality time together in the cramped trunk of a car, especially if one has just spent part of the evening crawling through a tunnel carved out of the odiferous Everglades muck and the other is hiding a Sig Sauer between her thighs, love and attraction
I read this before, like, maybe twelve years ago. I'd have forgotten most of it I'm sure, but for the masterful Steven Soderburgh film which I've seen way more (it's like Du Maurier's Rebecca, which I've read but seen the Hitchcock film of a dozen times so I never really bothered to read it again). It was actually seeing the movie version of Out of Sight in the theater when it came out (I was 21) which led to my reading Leonard (though I began with a copy of Glitz that I found). If nothing was a
4 ½ stars. I smiled a lot during this book. Ive never read anything like it.STORY BRIEF:Jack has robbed hundreds of banks. Hes smooth, charming, and likeable when talking to the tellers hes robbing. Karen is a Deputy U.S. Marshall. She arrived at the prison to deliver something and is getting out of her car when she sees Jack crawl out of a tunnel. He has just escaped and his getaway driver Buddy is parked next to Karen. They take Karen with them so she cant help authorities catch them. Jack
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