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In this sequel to
Pronto, Harry Arno has retired from bookmaking but is still closing out some of his outstanding debts. But then his collection agent, an ex-con by the name of Bobby Deo, goes to pick up $1,800 from Chip Ganz and ends up getting hired for a hostage-taking operation (like kidnapping "in a way," Chip tells him, "only different. A lot different.") When Harry's taken by his own man, it's up to United States Marshal Raylan Givens to track him down, in the same methodically relentless fashion he tracked Harry that time he ran off to Italy. Throw in a henchman named Louis Lewis with plans of his own and an attractive young psychic named Reverend Dawn, and you've got yet another crime story that'll keep you on the edge of your seat--occasionally chuckling to yourself--straight through to the finish. (And bonus points to loyal Leonard fans who can spot the crossover elements from
Rum Punch and
Maximum Bob.)
--Ron Hogan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Simple scams usually turn complex in Leonard land, where the author can doubtless choreograph his scammers' moves in his sleep by now; indeed, much of Rap appears to be riding on automatic pilot. Nevertheless, even middling Leonard is as good as anyone else gets on a good day. This darkly witty page-turner returns to the vexed, triangular relationship of Florida marshal Raylan Givens, his girlfriend, Joyce, and her ex-lover, the aging bookie Harry Arno (all seen previously in Pronto). When Harry disappears while chasing down a tardy debtor named Chip Ganz, Joyce admonishes Raylan to investigate. It turns out Chip is a middle-aged pothead living in his mother's seedy beach mansion, whose stoned analysis of televised hostage situations has fueled a baroque kidnapping scheme, into which Harry has stumbled. Like many a Leonard bad guy, Ganz only talks a good game. It falls upon an ex-con and his preening psychotic cohort to execute the caper, with help from an alluring psychic. Raylan's probe takes him into a shadowy New Age subculture of Tarot readings and Hugger conventions, which Leonard limns with characteristic grit and black humor. Ultimately, however, the story lacks the high voltage of Leonard's best work.
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- Paperback: 338 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (January 3, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9780062122476
- ISBN-13: 978-0062122476
- ASIN: 0062122479
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 5.4 x 7.9 inches
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Epub Riding the Rap: A Novel
Riding The Rap is a direct sequel to the Leonard's novel Pronto. Pronto ended with Raylan exacting revenge on Tommy Bucks and hooking up with Harry's ex Joyce while ex-mafia bookie Harry Arno remained a lonely whining crybaby.
Riding The Rap picks up a year later. Raylan is still in a relationship with Joyce, although they are having problems due to Joyce continuing to enable and aid Harry, who has become a depressed alcoholic and is still talking of retiring and moving to Italy. Because of the celebrity and controversy that Raylan received after his shooting of Tommy Bucks the Marshals service has assigned him to work with Miami police in a special task force that tracks down fugitives. The novel opens with Raylan bringing a man back to Miami who was arrested for a DUI and then discovered to have a warrant out for his arrest. The journey ends in typical Raylan fashion, with him arresting 2 others and bringing them to justice as well.
Harry is still around. Like in Pronto, he is still talking about moving to Italy and retiring. With the mafia no longer after him, Harry continued to operate a book in Miami. But now that he again has decided to retire he has been collecting all the large debts owed to him, with Joyce's help as she is driving him around due to Harry losing his own license because of a DWI arrest. Harry manipulates Joyce into helping him and always feeling sorry for him. Harry hires Bobby Deo, aspiring gardener who works as a bounty hunter, to track down a man named Chip Ganz who owes Harry $16,500. But instead Chip talks Bobby into helping him and Chip's muscle, a Jamaican man named Louis Lewis, into working for them and its Harry who goes missing soon instead.
When Joyce finds out that Harry is missing again she begs Raylan to go looking for him again.
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