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“My favorite Leonard book….He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew better ears for dialogue.” —Dallas Morning News“The best writer of crime fiction alive.” —NewsweekDangerously eccentric characters razor-sharp black humor brilliant dialog and suspense all rolled into one tight package—that’s The Switch Elmore Leonard’s classic tale of a kidnapping gone wrong…or terribly right depending on how you look at it. The Grand Master whom the New York Times Book Review calls “the greatest crime writer of our time perhaps ever” has written a wry and twisting tale that any of the other all-time greats—Dashiell Hammett Raymond Chandler John D. MacDonald James M. Cain Robert Parker…every noir author who ever walked a detective cop or criminal into a shadowy alley—would be thrilled to call their own. Leonard the man who has given us U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (currently starring in TV’s Justified) is at his storytelling best as a spurned wife decides to take a rightful—and profitable—revenge on her deceiving hubby by teaming up with the two thugs he hired to abduct her.