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I had seen jackie brown, the movie adapted from this book, several times before finally reading rum punch. Many of his books have been made into movies, including get shorty, out of sight, and rum punch, which became quentin tarantinos jackie brown. Elmore leonard s rum punch which was the basis of quentin tarantinos jackie brown is a pageturner in the truest sense of the word its hard to put down. Rum punch available for download and read online in other formats. Publication date 1998 topics illegal arms transfers, illegal arms transfers.
A true sign of a talented crime writer, however, is the way he can paint the scene of the crime in a gripping, suspense filling way. Fire in the hole elmore leonard download free ebook. Originally published as rum punch elmore leonard published by dell publishing a division of bantam doubleday dell publis. The inimitable elmore leonard follows up his bestseller maximum bob with a punch rum punch where a gun dealer, a flight attendant, and a bail bondsman make interesting bedfellows. Pdf the hot kid book by elmore leonard free download.
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