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A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore Leonard

‘This chaotic, blackly comic story is carried aloft on Leonard’s cool, easy prose’ – The Observer

Ordell and Louis have picked the wrong woman to kidnap…

They thought it would be easy money. Snatch the wife of a rich Detroit businessman and demand a nice big ransom. What they didn’t reckon on was the fact that her husband has a secret mistress and doesn’t want his wife back at all. Or that their victim, Margaret ‘Mickey’ Dawson, is more than a little tired of playing the perfect housewife. So tired, in fact, that she’s out for revenge, and willing to turn the tables on everyone to get it.

Publisher Review

PRAISE FOR ELMORE LEONARD * - * The crime writer's crime writer, King of all he surveys -- Ian Rankin Cool talk, hot action ... it's impossible not to love Elmore Leonard * LA Times * The hottest thriller writer in the US * TIME * The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever * The New York Times Book Review * Leonard is a genius * The New York Times * Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today * The New York Times * Leonard provides the fizziest and cleverest dialogue in crime fiction. A total delight * The Times * He's set the standard against which all other crime novels are measured * The New York Times * The man other crime writers call the Boss * The Daily Telegraph *