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The Hunted

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"Wonderful...razor-sharp."
—Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Excellent....A plot and a chase as good as anything he has ever written."
—Bergan Record

In Elmore Leonard's The Hunted, "crime fiction's greatest living practitioner" (Washington Post) carries the action far from his usual Detroit, Miami, and Los Angeles milieus, all the way to the Middle East. There no lack of excitement and suspense—and the trademark Leonard dialogue—in this superior tale of a fugitive hiding under the radar in Israel, until a well-publicized Good Samaritan act attracts the unwanted attention of well-armed Motown mobsters who are now coming to get him. The author who introduced the world to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (in his novels Pronto and Riding the Rap, before the lawman became the star of the hit TV drama Justified), the Grand Master shows why the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel calls him "the all-time king of the whack job crime novelists," and goes on to say that "Elmore Leonard tops them all"...including John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Robert B. Parker, and quite possibly every major mystery writer the U.S. has ever produced.

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    • Books+Publishing

      May 24, 2020
      On a lonely highway in outback Australia sits a solitary service station run by the equally solitary Frank, whose teenage granddaughter has been sent to stay with him for some attitude adjustment. When a badly injured young woman crashes her car into Frank’s service station with a vengeance-seeking mob on her tail, Frank, his granddaughter and a handful of customers are thrown into a stand-off of life and death proportions. They have no idea who these people are but once thrown into their orbit the group seemingly has only two choices: fight or die. The Hunted is a perfectly paced, thrilling read with an unrelenting sense of dread and menace. The narrative unfolds incrementally, building suspense at every turn of the page. Meanwhile, the alternating timelines, which meet up towards the end, add multilayered tension to an already gripping story. The darker shades of the Australian landscape and psyche are used to great effect in The Hunted, which at times feels reminiscent of Wake in Fright. This is brutal storytelling. Crime and thriller readers will love this savage Rottweiler of a novel that will clamp its jaws around their throat and shake them to the end. Deborah Crabtree is a Melbourne-based writer and bookseller.

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