PPD Showcase: Dermot Cleary's Homage to Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard liked bad guys.
In his acclaimed crimes novels, such as Get Shorty, Rum Punch, and Cuba Libre, crooks and killers could be engaging, cool, and sexy. There was, for instance, the likable and loquacious bank robber Jack Foley in Leonard’s Out of Sight, which was …