Raylan: A Novel

With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky coalmines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross three-hundred thousand dollars, but thatamp;#8217;s chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get youamp;#8212;especially when itamp;#8217;s 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, itamp;#8217;s up to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens to stop them. But by the time Raylan finds out whoamp;#8217;s making the cuts, heamp;#8217;s lying naked in a bathtub, with Layla the cool transplant nurse about to go for his kidneys.

Dark and droll, Raylan is pure Elmore Leonardamp;#8212;a page-turner filled with sparkling dialogue and sly suspense that are the hallmarks of this modern master.