Forty Lashes Less One

Praise for the western fiction of

Elmore Leonard

“CLASSIC WESTERN FARE.”

San Francisco Chronicle

“BEFORE LEONARD’S CONTEMPORARY CADRE OF URBAN COWBOYS, THERE WAS AN IMPRESSIVE LINEUP OF THE REAL THING. BOUNTY HUNTERS, INDIANS, STAGECOACH DRIVERS, BANK ROBBERS, SHERIFFS, AND COWPUNCHERS PEOPLED THE PAGES OF HIS NOVELS IN A GRITTY MIX RICH IN THE FLAVOR AND INDIVIDUALISM OF THE OLD WEST.”

Florida Times-Union

“ALL THE ELEMENTS OF HIS DETROIT, MIAMI, AND ATLANTIC CITY NOVELS ARE HERE: OBLIQUE DIALOGUE, CLOSELY OBSERVED BEHAVIOR, A CERTAIN SUNNY CYNICISM, A MELANCHOLY COURAGE.”

Boston Globe

“HE KNOWS HIS WAY ONTO A HORSE AND OUT OF A GUNFIGHT AS WELL AS HE KNOWS THE SPECIAL KING’S ENGLISH SPOKEN BY HIS PATENTED, NOT-SO-LOVABLE URBAN LOWLIFES.”

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

“TRUE LEONARD FANS WILL NEED TO HAVE THIS.”

Toronto Globe and Mail