Glitz

Vincent Mora just can't win. He's been shot, his girlfriend is about to be tossed off a balcony, and there's a vengeful creep looking to even a twisted score. Set against the tacky glitter of Atlantic City's billion-dollar casinos, Glitz has all the classic Leonard touches: quirky characters, colorful and cinematic scenes, and dialogue that's, well, to die for.

"Intense and inevitable... The talk is so true and tough and dirty that it sounds as if it had been wiretapped.... You almost have to read [Glitz] twice, the firsttime fast to find out what happens, the second time to savor it."(— The New York Times)

After finishing Glitz, I went out and bought everything by Elmore Leonard I could find.... You can put Glitz on the same shelf with your John D.MacDonalds, your Raymond Chandlers, your Dashiell Hammetts."-(— Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review)

"As quick and spare as a no-frills flight to Detroit, as contemporary as the crime rate... The man is a pro."(— Los Angeles Times Book Review )