Washington Post Book World
“Leonard is the best in the business: His dialogue snaps, his characters are more alive than most of the people you meet on the street, and his twisting plots always resolve themselves with a no-nonsense plausibility.”
Newsday
“The finest thriller writer alive.”
Village Voice
“Leonard’s cinematic grasp of scene and setting, his ability to arouse within us a helpless sympathy for even the lowest of his characters, his quirky pacing and plot twists, and his sly humor and artfully oddball prose sear our eyeballs and keep the pages turning.”
Miami Herald
“The grand master of the crime genre . . . The foremost mystery writer in America today.”
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
“A giant among writers of crime fiction.”
Columbus Dispatch
“No one can beat Elmore Leonard when it comes to mordant humor and shockingly bizarre situations.”
Orlando Sentinel
“Leonard remains the uncontested master of the crime thriller. . . . The thing that distances Elmore Leonard from his legion of imitators (apart from the inimitable style) is his seemingly inexhaustible store of hapless scoundrels and his ability to weave the threads of their sorry lives, twisted ambitions, and desperate dreams into a marvelous tapestry that depicts, better than any sociological study could ever hope to capture, the seamy underside of modern life. It’s a talent deceptive in its apparent simplicity.”
Tampa Tribune
“When Elmore Leonard’s people start talking, I can’t help myself, I have to listen.”
Lawrence Block
“Elmore Leonard can’t write ’em fast enough.”
Bergen Record
Books by Elmore Leonard
The Bounty Hunters
The Law at Randado
Escape from Five Shadows
Last Stand at Saber River
Hombre
The Big Bounce
The Moonshine War
Valdez Is Coming
Forty Lashes Less One
Mr. Majestyk
52 Pickup
Swag
Unknown Man #89
The Hunted
The Switch
Gunsights
Gold Coast
City Primeval
Split Images
Cat Chaster
Stick
LaBrava
Glitz
Bandits
Touch
Freaky Deaky
Killshot
Maximum Bob
Rum Punch
Pronto
Riding the Rap
Out of Sight
Cuba Libre
The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories
Be Cool
Pagan Babies
Tishomingo Blues
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the 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.
GOLD COAST. Copyright © 1980 by Elmore Leonard. 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 NOVEMBER © 2002 ISBN: 9780061835513
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