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In Detroit the student protesters of two decades ago are turning their attention to less idealistic matters - like making money. With explosives they have the means to make a lot of it. Two ex-hippies embark on a big scam. The trouble is, they underrate the quality of the opposition...

Collecting money for the Mob isn't too different from any other job, reckons Miami loan shark Chili Palmer. He soon finds himself ordered to collect on a bad debt from Leo Devoe, a guy who died in a plane crash. But it turns out Leo isn't dead - he's living it up in Las Vegas on the compensation money. So Chili follows him to Vegas and then on to Hollywood, where he gets drawn into the world of movies...

El agente judicial Raylan Givens es un hombre de pocas palabras, conocido por su sombrero vaquero y su facilidad para desenfundar. Su debilidad son las mujeres, pero en los ambientes en los que se mueve no se encuentra precisamente a lo mejor del genero femenino. Plantaciones de marihuana, traficantes de organos, mineros afectados por la contaminacion, timbas ilegales, corredores de apuestas, criadores de caballos, delincuentes sin el menor rasgo de humanidad y mujeres fatales se entrecruzan en esta nueva obra de Elmore Leonard, el gran maestro de la novela negra norteamericana.El agente judicial Raylan Givens es un hombre de pocas palabras, conocido por su sombrero vaquero y su facilidad para desenfundar. Su debilidad son las mujeres, pero en los ambientes en los que se mueve no se encuentra precisamente a lo mejor del genero femenino. Plantaciones de marihuana, traficantes de organos, mineros afectados por la contaminacion, timbas ilegales, corredores de apuestas, criadores de caballos, delincuentes sin el menor rasgo de humanidad y mujeres fatales se entrecruzan en esta nueva obra de Elmore Leonard, el gran maestro de la novela negra norteamericana.

Le sergent Davis, du Corps des Marines, allait prendre une retraite qu'il redoutait, comme bien des futurs retraités. Et, sans le savoir, sans le vouloir, il trouva la solution. Il devint, dans les sables du Sinaï, une sorte de Don Quichotte et de redresseur de torts. Sa Dulcinée était une charmante israélienne. Mais les moulins à vent se révélèrent de redoutables malfrats.

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Antwan is a coyote, living in the Hollywood Hills, who loves life on the wild side - running free in the woods with the wind in his fur, hanging with his gang the Diablos, grooming the pack for ticks and fleas and chasing anything that moves and might be edible. There's just one thing a wild dog's got to do - and that's keep away from humans. But then he meets Buddy. Buddy is a retired movie star (canine), who since he retired has lost his sparkle. He also happens to share a house with a very tasty poodle called Miss Betty. Antwan thinks it would be good for Buddy to try life on the wild side - so they decide to swap. But first, Antwan has to try life in the clean, shampooed, tinned-food and 'walkies' world of pampered domestic pooches. Which doesn't come naturally to a wild dog like him . . .

Mitchell, in his forties, is a self-made man who owns a factory in Detroit and has been happily married for twenty years. And then he slips. He sets up a young "model" in an apartment, and blackmail ensues in the shape of three masked men. But the thugs reckon without his desire for revenge.

The Dominican revolution is 16 years old as is George Moran's obsession with a beautiful female sniper. Ex-leatherneck Moran lives in Miami, and maybe life is just too easy there - the sun, a six

Seriously crazed killer Clement Mansell, aka the "Oklahoma Wildman, " is back on the Detroit streets--thanks to nifty courtroom moves by his lawyer--and he's feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked Motown judge on a whim. Homicide detective Raymond Cruz is determined to see that the hayseed psycho doesn't slip through a legal loophole the second time.

Chloe is a former escort who's found herself a steady job as the personal dancer to a wealthy, retired lawyer named Tony Paradiso. The money's good and the work, dancing around in a topless cheerleader's outfit while he watches old football games, is not exactly challenging. One night Chloe and Tony have two guests at their party--she brings along her roommate, Kelly, and he invites his business partner, Montez Taylor. What should have been a night of naughty fun soon turns deadly and before anyone can even cheer "Go, team!" there are two dead bodies on the floor. Called into the crime scene, detective Frank Delsa soon learns that he has more than just a double homicide on his hands--indeed, he must solve a complicated case involving an assumed identity and a safe deposit box full of money.

Carlos Webster was fifteen in the fall of 1921 the first time he came face-to-face with a nationally known criminal. A few weeks later, he killed his first man—a cattle thief who was rustling his dad's stock. Now Carlos, called Carl, is the hot kid of the U.S. Marshals Service, one of the elite manhunters currently chasing the likes of Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd across America's Depression-ravaged heartland. Carl wants to be the country's most famous lawman. Jack Belmont, the bent son of an oil millionaire, wants to be public enemy number one. Tony Antonelli of True Detective magazine wants to write about this world of cops and robbers, molls and speakeasies from perilously close up. Then there are the hot dames—Louly and Elodie—hooking their schemes and dreams onto dangerous men. And before the gunsmoke clears, everybody just might end up getting exactly what he or she wished for.

Corre la década de los treinta en la vieja Oklahoma. Son los años de Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, John Dillinger y Baby Face Nelson, aquellos míticos gánsteres que llenaron las primeras planas de la prensa de la epoca e hicieron correr rios de imaginacion. Carl Webster, hijo de un veterano de la guerra de Cuba, por cuyas venas corre sangre india Creek y cubana, a sus 21 años es ya un policia reconocido por la frialdad y la precision con la que mato de un disparo certero a un conocido atracador de bancos, Emmett Long. Su antagonista es un joven autodestructivo, Jack Belmont, quien, tras chantajear a su padre, un magnate del petroleo, aspira a convertirse en el enemigo publico numero 1 en un afan de notoriedad. La persecucion no resultara sencilla y se convertira en un autentico duelo entre dos tipos implacables en busca de la fama. El triangulo narrativo lo completa Tony Antonelli, de la revista True Detective, un periodista ansioso de inmortalizarlos y de inmortalizarse, y la pelirroja Louly Brown, con un tacto especial para atraer tipos duros. Un tipo implacable es una de las obras mas conseguidas de Elmore Leonard, este maestro de la novela negra y de la intriga norteamericana. Con una tension narrativa sin igual y unos dialogos corrosivos, ironicos, precisos y contundentes, Leonard nos pinta un fresco en tonos sepia de aquel Estados Unidos de la depresion y de la ley seca, plagado de atracadores de bancos, corrupcion y garitos ilegales. Una novela de accion trepidante en la que Leonard entremezcla el olor a petroleo con el perfume de mujer fatal, y el tableteo de las metralletas con la musica de Count Basie y Louis Armstrong.