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Overview

Legendary New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard returns with three of his favorite characters: Jack Foley from Out of Sight, Cundo Rey from Labrava, and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap.

Jack Foley is serving a thirty-year sentence in a Miami penitentiary, but he's made an unlikely friend on the inside who just might be able to do something about that. Fellow inmate Cundo Rey, an extremely wealthy Cuban criminal, arranges for Foley's sentence to be reduced from thirty years to three months, and when Jack is released just two weeks ahead of Cundo, he agrees to wait for him in Venice Beach, California.

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Overview

Legendary New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard returns with three of his favorite characters: Jack Foley from Out of Sight, Cundo Rey from Labrava, and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap.

Jack Foley is serving a thirty-year sentence in a Miami penitentiary, but he's made an unlikely friend on the inside who just might be able to do something about that. Fellow inmate Cundo Rey, an extremely wealthy Cuban criminal, arranges for Foley's sentence to be reduced from thirty years to three months, and when Jack is released just two weeks ahead of Cundo, he agrees to wait for him in Venice Beach, California.

Also waiting for Cundo is his common-law wife, Dawn Navarro, a professional psychic with a slightly ulterior motive for staying with Cundo: she wants his money. And with the arrival of Jack, she sees the perfect partner in a plan to relieve Cundo of his fortune. Cundo may be Jack's friend, but does that mean he can trust him? And can either of them trust Dawn?

Road Dogs is Elmore Leonard at his best and readers will love seeing Cundo, Jack, and Dawn back in action and working together . . . or are they?

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Janet Maslin
Ordinarily the writer who turns to his own pages for inspiration risks looking lazy. But Mr. Leonard's crime stories are packed with players who deserve curtain calls. And there's nothing remotely wheezy about his way of throwing together Foley, Cundo and Dawn…Foley has the brains, Cundo the machismo and Dawn the shamelessness to make this one of Mr. Leonard's most enjoyably sneaky stories…[Leonard] still writes with high style, great energy, unflappable cool and a jubilant love of the game. As ever, his scorn for fussy prose is best expressed through his own superbly lean locutions.
—The New York Times
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From The Critics
At any given moment there are hundreds of men and women who, in the twilight of their careers, should be regarded as American national treasures. For example, the politician John Lewis, the musicians Willie Nelson and Ellis Marsalis and the novelist Larry McMurtry, to mention a few. To that list let us add 83-year-old Elmore Leonard, whose new book, Road Dogs, is yet another gem in a career that has endured for more than half a century and given us 42 novels.
—The Washington Post
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If he weren't known as a master of crime fiction, Elmore Leonard would be recognized as one of our best writers of romantic comedy.

In the movies now, romantic comedies are little more than Oprah-ized discussions on the state of our relationships, therapy sessions with an implied laugh track. At heart, though, romantic comedy has always been a tough-minded genre. Even when the couple had passed the tests before them, the fade-outs usually offered only the certainty that what lay in front of these new lovers was the hard work of living. At its best -- The Lady Eve, Holiday, or even the recent Ghost Town -- romantic comedy is not for wimps.

Elmore Leonard is not a wimp. The male-female relationships in his novels are so believable because even the younger characters come with some wear on them. Think of his pairings: the airline stewardess and the bail bondsman in Rum Punch (the basis for Quentin Tarantino's great Jackie Brown); the Detroit cop and the lingerie model in Mr. Paradise; another Detroit cop and the reporter who stumbles onto a great story in Split Images; the two recovering alcoholics in Unknown Man #89; and of course the veteran bank robber Jack Foley and the federal marshal Karen Sisco in Out of Sight (forever in our minds, George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez in Steven Soderbergh's film).

Leonard has a feel for the anti-romantic wisecracking that functions as verbal foreplay between his lovers, and a knowledge of the contingencies that keeps the stars out of their eyes. He's also scarily adept at the love affairs that don't work out. His 1989 Killshot (the basis for a terrific but maltreated movie shortly to appear on DVD) is one of the best portraits of a loving, crumbling marriage that I know, and I'd take it any day over the revered miserabalism of Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road.

Road Dogs isn't exactly a romantic comedy. But the dirty crackle of sex races through it. His pair might be more in lust than in love, but again Leonard offers the wry spectacle of two headstrong people bumping up against each other, not always pleasurably. One half of the equation is Jack Foley, returning from Out of Sight. He's not the only Leonard character to make a bow. Figures from Riding the Rap, La Brava, and Maximum Bob make an appearance.

In Road Dogs, Foley, returned to the joint after the brief taste of freedom he enjoyed in Out of Sight, makes the acquaintance of Cundo Rey -- rich and crooked in equal measure --and becomes his buddy. Cundo shows his appreciation by fixing Jack up with a hotshot lawyer who gets Jack's 30-year sentence reduced to time served.

Unexpectedly free, Jack becomes Cundo's L.A. house guest, where he's supposed to await his benefactor's imminent release while hatching a plan to work with Cundo's lady, Dawn. Dawn is -- you should pardon the expression -- a spiritualist. Her scam is to convince rich women that a meddlesome spirit (usually a spouse who's shuffled off this mortal coil) has returned to cause trouble. Jack will play the part of the specialist who can rid the abode of the unwelcome ectoplasmic visitor.

You'd have to be awfully slow to hear that setup and not figure out that Jack and Dawn wind up in the sack -- and that Dawn has plans for Cundo's money that don't include Cundo.

Maybe Elmore Leonard's knack for writing sex scenes has to do with the fact that he never loses sight of the laughs that lovemaking can entail. Instead of the mush of afterglow, Leonard gives us this exchange after Dawn and Jack's first dalliance:

"Did you have a good time?"
"My heart," Foley said, "soared like a hawk."

And because the sex here is inextricable from the scheming, there's a dirty kick to it, an extra seasoning of the forbidden.

The offhand expertise of an old pro is most visible in Road Dogs in the way Leonard treats a Postman Always Rings Twice scenario with casual humor. Dawn -- a sexpot who makes sure her bed partners keep their eye on her bottom while she keeps hers on the bottom line -- is as untrustworthy as any femme fatale. But Leonard is having too much fun delineating her guile to get distracted by her smolder.

Where Road Dogs goes wrong is in what distracts the reader. Leonard sets up too many complications surrounding Jack and Dawn -- a rogue FBI agent convinced Jack is about to return to his larcenous ways; the former gang member the agent hires to keep an eye on Jack; Cundo's trusted business partner, charged with ensuring Dawn's chastity and keeping Cundo's coffers stocked. It's not just that these plotlines obscure the main story -- at times they make it hard to say what the main story is. Part of that problem is that Leonard has relied here almost entirely on dialogue. You can hardly blame him. Martin Amis famously said that both he and Saul Bellow felt that "for an absolutely reliable and unstinting infusion of narrative pleasure in a prose miraculously purged of all false qualities, there [is] no one quite like Elmore Leonard." Road Dogs, though, offers a bit too much of a good thing. Leonard's touch is as sure as ever. He is one of the masters of voice in contemporary fiction. But at times this story can make you feel as if you are making your way through a thicket of voices, trying to keep the motive of each separate one clear.

And it has to be said, the two women that the book pays attention to -- Dawn and the widowed Hollywood actress Jack ends up keeping company with -- aren't as interesting as the women who make brief appearances: Karen Sisco, testifying on Jack's behalf at an early trial scene, or Megan Norris, the lawyer who gets Jack his freedom, seemingly without effort.

The disappointment that Karen Sisco appears in only one scene is easy to understand: She and Foley were such a memorable combination in Out of Sight that you can't blame the reader for wanting more. The disappointment that Megan Norris is such a brief presence requires a little more explanation. Like Howard Hawks, Elmore Leonard adores strong, competent women, and Megan's few scenes set you up to believe she's going to be a major character.

Given the fact, though, that Road Dogs is an extended bow by what might be called the Elmore Leonard Players, it wouldn't be a surprise to see her return in the future. If Road Dogs is a flawed entertainment, it's still a new Elmore Leonard novel. And like the stash that Cundo has hidden away, that ain't hay. --Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor has written for numerous publications including Salon, the Boston Phoenix, and the New York Times Book Review.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061733147
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 5/12/2009
  • Pages: 272
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard
After 30 years writing westerns and crime novels, Elmore Leonard finally started to get somewhere. "Author Discovered After 23 Books," The New York Times said in 1983, referring to his Edgar Award-winning novel LaBrava. Since then, Leonard's tack-sharp dialogue and comic underworld characters have been drawing accolades and an ever growing base of fans.

Biography

Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books during his highly successful writing career, including the bestsellers 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 in Bloomfield Village, Michigan.

Author biography courtesy of HarperCollins.

    1. Also Known As:
      Elmore Leonard
      Elmore John Leonard Jr.
    2. Hometown:
      Bloomfield Village, Michigan
    1. Date of Birth:
      October 11, 1925
    2. Place of Birth:
      New Orleans, Louisiana
    1. Education:
      B.Ph., University of Detroit, 1950
    2. Website:
      http://www.elmoreleonard.com/
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  • Posted July 8, 2009

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    The book was better than great which one would expect from E.L. The good guys aren't really good, the bad guys are so bad, the girls are so sexy and treacherous. You are in it, the reality of the convict world grabs you by the throat.

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  • Posted September 17, 2011

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    Really good, but no plot.

    CD/unabridged: This novel is a sequel of three other characters in two other Leonard books. This is my first Elmore Leonard book and I found it very entertaining. However, there wasn't really a plot. Jack Foley, the charming bank robber, meets Cundo Rey in prison. During the course of the story, they are both released and into the clutches of Dawn.
    I was always waiting for something to happen.
    Frances James does a narrative of the story. Jack Foley is smooth and reminds me of Micheal on Burn Notice. Cundo is on the lower ranks of humanity and Dawn is out for herself. I don't know if I would have been happy reading this, but it was a entertaining audio.

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  • Posted October 26, 2009

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    Not Leornard's Best, but It Still Works

    I am am Elmore Leonard fan; so, when I see one of his books, I will get one. I especially like When the Women Come Out To Dance, Get Shorty and Be Cool (to name only a few). What I love is his use of language. He is a master at capturing the spirit of a culture and, his characters pop off the page. On top of that, many of plots are clever and have so many twists and turns that Lombard Street (in San Francisco) would be impressed.

    However, one cannot always be on (Terry Pratchett an exception). Road Dogs is entertaining, but not deep. It won't rate with Hammett, but is in line with another fave of mine, Robert B Parker. The writing is always top-notch, the characters are interesting, and the story moves along nicely. It just won't blow your socks off. I was not compelled to read it in the way I was with other works where I couldn't put it down. Regardless, I couldn't help but pick it up and smile.

    So, I did enjoy myself, and any fan of Leonard's will. If this is your first time reading his stuff, though, try Maximum Bob, Get Shorty or one of his westerns.

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  • Posted September 30, 2009

    Road Dogs is undomesticated fun and best-in-show at the book club

    Elmore Leonard has a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue and an unfettered writing style. Jack Foley and Cundo Rey are his road dogs (prison buddies) who, despite their differences in age, size, and criminal style, are bonded for life. Dawn Navarro is the dream girl every man wants to sleep with and the nightmare wife some men end up with. Leonard's characters are absolutely real while plot twits roles out like unexpected curves on the PCH, revealing breathtaking landscapes of human behavior. It's a hell of a book.

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  • Posted August 13, 2009

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    just okay, expected more

    Two guys meet in prison, form a friendship and one (Cundo) helps the other (Jack) get his sentence reduced. Now Jack owes Cundo, or does he? Outside, Jack stays at Cundo's house, meets Cundo's woman and waits for Cundo to get released. Oh, did I mention that Jack has an FBI agent hounding him, waiting for him to rob another bank? What we have here is a peculiar group of characters who definitely are not being honest with each other. "Road Dogs" is filled with witty dialogue, but with a plot that doesn't hold for the full length of the novel. It was enjoyable but there has been better from Elmore Leonard.

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  • Posted July 30, 2009

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    return characters and the passage of time

    i found this book enjoyable. it has the same "old guy just telling you a story" feel to it. it's got that element of ridiculous that makes things so real because they sound like such bull at times. there is some repetition here - and i suppose this could rub you wrong or right, depending on your taste. i found the surfacing of some familiar names and faces, and they were surfacing in new times and set ups. it took me forward and brought me back. the book reads fast. if you don't end up loving it, you're only out a couple of sittings.

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  • Posted July 6, 2009

    Trite & Overrated

    I don't know how this guy gets away with good reviews. I know the NYT and some of the elites think he is original. He was at one time but no more. He is now writing for the Long Island crowd that used to hire hippies to entertain at their Saturday night parties during the sixties or the Leonard Bernstein crowd that enjoyed an evening with the Black Panthers. Leonard is now a certified Limousine Liberal for whom he now writes. He was good before he had to try so hard to be authentic. Too much time in Hollywood?

    I found this book boring. For some Southampton clown or Imas who wants to be "with it" it might be interesting. Leonard is not the NYT or the New Yorker, thank heavens for that, but his writing for that crowd of effete hypocrites and ,as far as I am concerned, has overstayed its interest level. He will continue to draw the ever evolving boring crowd referred to above.

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  • Posted July 5, 2009

    Good to meet some old characters again

    My one recommendation is that if the reader read the books with these characters in the a while ago (like me) that they reread the books they were in to get reacquainted with them.

    Otherwise, this was a good book. Leonard goes into good detail, if you've ever been to Venice, he did an ecellent jod describing it--I felt like I was right there. The book had the typical plot twists of a Leonard novel. I just hope he writes another novel with Foley in it, as I especially like hi scharacter.

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  • Posted July 4, 2009

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    Leonard (Almost Doesn't) Does It Again

    Leonard revisits familiar, yet lush, territory with this work. While this opus looks familiar in spots, Leonard's ear for dialogue and characters saves Road Dogs from retread status. All in all, a good read.

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  • Posted June 3, 2009

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    Elmore Leonard brings back three characters from previous books for an encore performance in his latest comedic foray into the criminal world. Bank robber Jack Foley (Out of Sight), and Cundo Rey (LaBrava), meet in prison and quickly become friends, referring to themselves as Road Dogs. Rey's lawyer has arranged for his early release from prison and Rey offers her services to Foley, who's in for thirty years. She manages to get Foley's prison term reduced to thirty months and Foley is released two weeks before Rey. Rey offers Foley one of his houses in Venice Beach but admonishes him to keep his hands off his girlfriend, Dawn (Riding the Rap), a psychic/ghost hunter patiently waiting for Rey's release so she can con him out of his millions. When she meets Foley, Dawn knows he is her way to the money and tries to work her magic on him. Foley is intrigued but distracted by an FBI agent tailing him, waiting to capture him after he robs his next bank.

    As usual, Leonard adroitly moves the story forward through realistic, at times quirky, dialogue and the inner thoughts of some pretty wacky people. He excels at delivering entertaining scenes of duplicity and complicity among characters on the wrong and right side of the law. Foley takes the lead in this comedy and is a cool guy who manages to stay one step ahead of those who have no qualms about taking him out, legally or illegally. The interplay between Foley and the others will keep the readers turning pages, laughing along the way. This is one fun read.

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