Raylan: A Novel
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โNew York Times Book Review
The reveredย New York Timesย bestselling author, recognized as โAmericaโs greatest crime writerโ (Newsweek), brings back U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the mesmerizing hero ofย Pronto,ย Riding the Rap, and the hit FX seriesย Justified.
With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross $300,000, but thatโs chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get youโespecially when itโs sold off piece by piece.
So when Dickie and Coover Crowe, dope-dealing brothers known for sampling their own supply, decide to branch out into the body business, itโs up to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens to stop them. But Raylan isnโt your average marshal; heโs the laconic, Stetson-wearing, fast-drawing lawman who juggles dozens of cases at a time and always shoots to kill. But by the time Raylan finds out whoโs making the cuts, heโs lying naked in a bathtub, with Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys.
The bad guys are mostly gals this time around: Layla, the nurse who collects kidneys and sells them for ten grand a piece; Carol Conlan, a hard-charging coal-mine executive not above ordering a cohort to shoot point-blank a man whoโs standing in her way; and Jackie Nevada, a beautiful sometime college student who can outplay anyone at the poker table and who suddenly finds herself being tracked by a handsome U.S. marshal.
Dark and droll,ย Raylanย is pure Elmore Leonardโa page-turner filled with the sparkling dialogue and sly suspense that are the hallmarks of this modern master.
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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.
