тАЬWonderful...razor-sharp.тАЭ
тАФLos Angeles Times Book Review
тАЬExcellent....A plot and a chase as good as anything he has ever written.тАЭ
тАФBergan Record
In Elmore LeonardтАЩs The Hunted, тАЬcrime fictionтАЩs greatest living practitionerтАЭ (Washington Post) carries the action far from his usual Detroit, Miami, and Los Angeles milieus, all the way to the Middle East. There no lack of excitement and suspenseтАФand the trademark Leonard dialogueтАФin this superior tale of a fugitive hiding under the radar in Israel, until a well-publicized Good Samaritan act attracts the unwanted attention of well-armed Motown mobsters who are now coming to get him. The author who introduced the world to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (in his novels Pronto and Riding the Rap, before the lawman became the star of the hit TV drama Justified), the Grand Master shows why the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel calls him тАЬthe all-time king of the whack job crime novelists,тАЭ and goes on to say that тАЬElmore Leonard tops them allтАЭ...including John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Robert B. Parker, and quite possibly every major mystery writer the U.S. has ever produced.
Elmore Leonard wrote more than forty books during his long career, including the bestsellers Raylan, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool, Get Shorty, and Rum Punch, as well as the acclaimed collection When the Women Come Out to Dance, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight. The short story тАЬFire in the Hole,тАЭ and three books, including Raylan, were the basis for the FX hit show Justified. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He died in 2013.