> Just finished Elmore Leonard's "Out Of Sight" this
weekend, liked it
(though
not as much as the movie) and plan to pick up some more by
him. What's
considered his 3 or 4 best novels? <
My favorite Leonard novel isn't one of his most recent ones,
but rather
"LaBrava." It's a dark-edged tale of a former Secret Service
agent whose new
start as a portrait photographer is endangered by his
encounter with a
fading but still sexy actress. She sucks him down into a
world of redneck
cops, deadly Cuban gunmen, and bizarre, big-bucks scamming. A
terrific
novel.
I was less impressed by the recent "Cuba Libre," which was
simply a dolled
up western with an uninspired romantic subplot.
-- Jeff
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