Elmore Leonard
1) LaBrava
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
Joe La Brava is an ex–Secret Service agent who gets mixed up in a South Miami Beach scam involving a redneck former cop, a Cuban hit man who moonlights as a go-go dancer, and a one-time movie queen whose world is part make-believe, part deadly dangerous.
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Bandits assembles an unlikely crew: an ex-cop, an ex-con, and an ex-nun. They've got their eyes on several million bucks intended for the Contras; with their unique set of skills and their crazily clever plan, they're sure to make out like bandits -- if they live so long
3) Get Shorty
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, follows a mark to Hollywood and ends up partnering with him in the movie business.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is picking at the thread of a cold case over 30 years in the making and unraveling a riddle that echoes all the way back to his boyhood and his criminal father's bad dealings. Meanwhile, Boyd Crowder finds his own criminal grip on Harlan County loosening due to a Pentecostal preacher with a penchant for theatrics and a knack for manipulation.
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Having left the hollers of Kentucky fifteen years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him toDetroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, who's already slipped through the fingers of Detroit's finest once"--