Picket Line: The Lost Novella and Two New Stories
Elmore Leonard fans, just when you thought you’d read them all, the master of crime fiction returns with a long-lost novella that explores the struggles of migrant farmers and the brutal realities they face while trying to unionize.
“This is the best of a magnificent writer's magnificent books.”—Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried
Three stories from the late, best-selling Elmore Leonard—"the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” (New York Times Book Review): Picket Line is the never-before-published, prescient tale of a budding agricultural strike in Texas, accompanied by Chick Killer and Ice Man.
“If a man comes out of the field and goes on the picket line, even for one day, he’ll never be the sa...






















