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Glitz (1985)

by Elmore Leonard

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"Intense....A higher caliber of entertainment." --New York Times Elmore Leonard's Glitz is a killer...in the best possible way. "The King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable noir tale of a mama's boy psycho killer with a vendetta against a Miami cop. A cat-and-mouse tale with claws, Glitz is thrilling, frightening, explosive, surprising, everything a great thriller is supposed to be--superior crime fiction the genre's late greats, John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al, would have been proud to call their own. Elmore Leonard, the creator of magnificent mayhem and truly unforgettable characters--like U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified--is at his nail-biting, page-turning best with Glitz which Stephen King in the New York Times Book Review calls, "Smashing and satisfying."… (more)
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Pure Elmore Leonard with the characters, the locations, the dialouge. I did feel like there was one character too many, since I never could keep one of the players in my mind as to who they were. But that's probably just me. ( )
  bjkelley | Dec 2, 2022 |
this one was good, too! some threads left dangling, but that’s no big deal. maybe they’re picked up again later, idk. ( )
  austinburns | Dec 16, 2021 |
Glitz by Elmore Leonard is simply a fun and easy to read book of the crime genre containing no lessons to steal away with or heavy philosophical points to ponder.

It is easy to see why author Leonard's works are so often transformed into screenplays. Glitz started out with a bang, literally, and had me laughing out loud as Vincent, the police detective, began to sound like Woody Allen wearing a shoulder harness for his 9mm automatic, and possessing a wicked right hook.

Elmore Leonard paints the picture and, in a delightful manner, shoots his character's messages across with very few adjectives and adverbs, so that the reader doesn't feel he is reading some formula-derived 'paint-by-numbers' novel.

If a person needs to pick up a book or two for the weekend, the beach, any trip to the airport or for the typical waits in either the lines of the government Social Security Administration or Post Office, you can't go wrong by purchasing a non-pretentious Elmore Leonard paperback to enjoy.


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  AZBob1951 | Oct 27, 2021 |
Atlantic City gambling, Cosa Nostra, a psycho-rapist, suspense, not mystery, pretty good
  ritaer | Mar 15, 2020 |
2.5 stars ( )
  jkdavies | Jun 14, 2016 |
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"Intense....A higher caliber of entertainment." --New York Times Elmore Leonard's Glitz is a killer...in the best possible way. "The King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable noir tale of a mama's boy psycho killer with a vendetta against a Miami cop. A cat-and-mouse tale with claws, Glitz is thrilling, frightening, explosive, surprising, everything a great thriller is supposed to be--superior crime fiction the genre's late greats, John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al, would have been proud to call their own. Elmore Leonard, the creator of magnificent mayhem and truly unforgettable characters--like U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified--is at his nail-biting, page-turning best with Glitz which Stephen King in the New York Times Book Review calls, "Smashing and satisfying."

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