An edition of Road Dogs: A Novel (2009)

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An edition of Road Dogs: A Novel (2009)

Road dogs

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Gentleman/banker-robber Jack Foley is back in prison doing a thirty-year sentence after a week-long escape. Brought in by Karen Sisco, US marshall, who got her man after being abducted with the escapees, Jack and Karen have a thing for each other, and Karen arrests him only after a meaningful 'time'out' together. Jack is resigning himself to doing time, lots of it, and he seems to have a friendly and easy control over the hardened criminals he is imprisoned with. This easiness is enhanced in the minds of others by his fame as a bank robber. It is this ease which impresses Cuando Rey, a Cuban refugee and criminal who is doing time for murder. Cuando arranges to have Foley's sentence hugely reduced, but has favors aplenty to ask when they're both released. Cuando's wife, Dawn, is pretending to be saintly all the while (whilst quite the opposite) under the negligent eye of The Monk, a gay accountant similarly in thrall to Cuando. Foley is freed, and, as he fears, Cuando wants to use him on a job, just as his every move is being scrutinised by FBI detective Lou Adams. In an instant, though, Dawn has seduced him, and she has an agenda all of her own.

Cuban con man Cundo Rey and gentleman bank robber Jack Foley are united in a scheme that involves the women in their lives and a beautiful psychic.

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William Morrow
Language
English
Pages
262

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Road Dogs: A Novel
May 4, 2010, Harper Paperbacks
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2010, Phoenix
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2009, William Morrow
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2009, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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2009, HarperCollins
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2009, Willaim Morrow
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2009, William Morrow
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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3562.E55 R63 2009, PS3562.E55R63 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
262 p. ;
Number of pages
262

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24749310M
ISBN 10
0061733148, 0061767190, 0061774707, 006176776X
ISBN 13
9780061733147, 9780061767197, 9780061774706, 9780061767760
LCCN
2008039607
OCLC/WorldCat
247442676
Amazon ID (ASIN)

Work Description

Elmore Leonard unites three of his favorite characters: Jack Foley from Out of Sight, Cundo Rey from LaBrava, and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap.

Charming bank robber Jack Foley is serving 30 years in a Miami pen, but he's made an unlikely friend on the inside who just might be able to do something about that. Fellow inmate Cundo Rey, an extremely wealthy Cuban criminal, arranges for Foley's sentence to be reduced from thirty years to three months, and when Jack is released just two weeks ahead of Cundo, he agrees to wait for him in Venice Beach, California.

Also waiting for Cundo is his common-law wife, Dawn Navarro, a professional psychic with a slightly ulterior motive for staying with Cundo: namely, she wants his money. And with the arrival of Jack, she sees the perfect partner in a plan to relieve Cundo of his fortune. Cundo may be Jack's friend, but does that mean he can trust him? And can either of them trust Dawn?

Road Dogs is Elmore Leonard at his best — with his trademark tight plotting and pitch-perfect dialogue — and readers will love seeing Cundo, Jack, and Dawn back in action and working together . . . or are they?

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