Only Karla remained.
About the Author
ELMORE LEONARD has written more than three dozen books during his highly successful writing career, including the bestsellers Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool, Get Shorty, and Rum Punch. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight. He is the recipient of the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife, Christine, in Bloomfield Village, Michigan.
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Praise for the Western Fiction of
Elmore Leonard
“LEONARD BEGAN HIS CAREER TELLING WESTERN STORIES…. HE KNOWS HIS WAY ONTO A HORSE AND OUT OF A GUNFIGHT AS WELL AS HE KNOWS THE SPECIAL KING’S ENGLISH SPOKEN BY HIS PATENTED NOT-SO-LOVABLE URBAN LOWLIFES.”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
“LEONARD WROTE WESTERNS, VERY GOOD WESTERNS…THE WAY HE IMAGINED HEMINGWAY, HIS MENTOR, MIGHT WRITE WESTERNS.”
Baton Rouge Sunday Advocate
“ALL THE ELEMENTS OF HIS DETROIT, MIAMI, AND ATLANTIC CITY NOVELS ARE HERE: OBLIQUE DIALOGUE, CLOSELY OBSERVED BEHAVIOR, A CERTAIN SUNNY CYNICISM, A MELANCHOLY COURAGE.”
Boston Globe
“LEONARD’S SPECIAL KIND OF TOUGH GUYS WERE BORN IN THE OLD WEST, WHERE HE POLISHED HIS WISECRACKING VIEW OF VIOLENCE AND MORALITY ON THE WORKINGS OF FRONTIER JUSTICE.”
Chicago Sun-Times
“AS WELCOME AS A THUNDERSTORM IN A DRY SPELL.”
Dallas Morning News
Books by Elmore Leonard
Tishomingo Blues
Pagan Babies
Be Cool
The Tonto Woman & Other Western Stories
Cuba Libre
Out of Sight
Pronto
Rum Punch
Maximum Bob
Get Shorty
Killshot
Freaky Deaky
Touch
Bandits
Glitz
LaBrava
Stick
Cat Chaser
Split Images
City Primeval
Gold Coast
Gunsights
The Switch
The Hunted
Unknown Man No. 89
Swag
Fifty-two Pickup
Mr. Majestyk
Valdez Is Coming
The Moonshine War
The Big Bounce
Hombre
Last Stand at Saber River
Escape from Five Shadows
The Law at Randado
The Bounty Hunters
A Coyote’s in the House
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
ESCAPE FROM FIVE SHADOWS. Copyright © 1956 by Elmore Leonard, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2004 ISBN: 9780061839955
First HarperTorch paperback printing: May 2002
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