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...“He’s a straight shooter with an easy sense of humour,” novelist Elmore Leonard wrote. “Walter’s cool. He remains in place because he knows what he’s always known: you begin with a good story.”...
...The author has said the book is an elegy “to the worst of who I am as a man”, and with dialogue as scabrous as anything by Elmore Leonard, Cosby is refreshingly ambiguous about his conflicted hero....
...It sometimes is, Elmore says....
...The Plea reads like an idiosyncratic cross between Elmore Leonard and John Grisham, but bursts with its own individual flavour....
...It is hard to believe that Robert B. Parker was not Spenser, the hard-boiled, soft-centred, wise-cracking Boston private eye....
...The upside of this is his ear for contemporary speech – a gift in which he rivals writers such as Elmore Leonard and Walter Mosley....
...The Commandments of Elmore Leonard, for example, quoted here, conclude: “10. Try to leave out the parts readers tend to skip.”...
...THE COMPLETE WESTERN STORIES by Elmore Leonard Weidenfeld & Nicolson ₤16.99, 544 pages He is most often associated with fast-paced, glitzy crime novels, but Leonard cut his teeth penning stories about...
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