The revered New York Times bestselling author,
recognized as "America''s greatest crime writer"
(Newsweek), brings back U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the
mesmerizing hero of Pronto, Riding the Rap, and
the hit FX series Justified.
With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines,
marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred
pounds of it can gross $300,000, but that''s chump change compared
to the quarter million a human body can get you-especially when
it''s sold off piece by piece.
So when Dickie and Coover Crowe, dope-dealing brothers known for
sampling their own supply, decide to branch out into the body
business, it''s up to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens to stop them. But
Raylan isn''t your average marshal; he''s the laconic,
Stetson-wearing, fast-drawing lawman who juggles dozens of cases at
a time and always shoots to kill. But by the time Raylan finds out
who''s making the cuts, he''s lying naked in a bathtub, with Layla,
the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys.
The bad guys are mostly gals this time around: Layla, the nurse
who collects kidneys and sells them for ten grand a piece; Carol
Conlan, a hard-charging coal-mine executive not above ordering a
cohort to shoot point-blank a man who''s standing in her way; and
Jackie Nevada, a beautiful sometime college student who can outplay
anyone at the poker table and who suddenly finds herself being
tracked by a handsome U.S. marshal.
Dark and droll, Raylan is pure Elmore Leonard-a
page-turner filled with the sparkling dialogue and sly suspense
that are the hallmarks of this modern master.
