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Road Dogs (2009)

di Elmore Leonard

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Serie: Jack Foley (2), Cundo Rey (2)

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Gentleman/banker-robber Jack Foley is back in prison doing a thirty-year sentence after a week-long escape. Brought in by Karen Sisco, US marshall, who got her man after being abducted with the escapees, Jack and Karen have a thing for each other, and Karen arrests him only after a meaningful 'time'out' together. Jack is resigning himself to doing time, lots of it, and he seems to have a friendly and easy control over the hardened criminals he is imprisoned with. This easiness is enhanced in the minds of others by his fame as a bank robber. It is this ease which impresses Cuando Rey, a Cuban refugee and criminal who is doing time for murder. Cuando arranges to have Foley's sentence hugely reduced, but has favors aplenty to ask when they're both released. Cuando's wife, Dawn, is pretending to be saintly all the while (whilst quite the opposite) under the negligent eye of The Monk, a gay accountant similarly in thrall to Cuando. Foley is freed, and, as he fears, Cuando wants to use him on a job, just as his every move is being scrutinised by FBI detective Lou Adams. In an instant, though, Dawn has seduced him, and she has an agenda all of her own.… (altro)
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Jack Foley, el atracador de bancos más famoso de Estados Unidos; Cundo Rey, el “marielito” cubano convertido en magnate del hampa gracias al tráfico de drogas y la “especulación” financiera e inmobiliaria; y su amante, la vidente Dawn Navarro, una auténtica mujer fatal. Jack y Cundo están en la cárcel. Cuando Jack queda en libertad, dos semanas antes que Cundo, éste le pide que lo espere en su mansión de Venice Beach, una de las zonas más exclusivas de California, hasta donde le va a seguir el agente del FBI Lou Adams, quien, a través de un soplón, aguarda el menor descuido de Foley para devolverle a la cárcel. Allí les espera Dawn Navarro con intenciones ocultas. Dawn cree haber encontrado en Jack al socio perfecto para sus planes. ¿Confía Cundo en Foley? ¿Se fían ambos de Dawn?
  Natt90 | Mar 17, 2023 |
I read loads of Elmore Leonard's books in my teens and twenties but hadn't picked one up for a while. This was a very enjoyable reminder of why he's as respected as he is - great characters, crackling dialogue and prose as lean and readable as anyone could wish for. ( )
  whatmeworry | Apr 9, 2022 |
Never mess with the Cuban, but, never mess with the Cuban's woman, but then again, never mess with Jack.

Listened to it straight through in one day. What a laugh.

Elmore Leonard is a craftsman sorely missed. ( )
  nab6215 | Jan 18, 2022 |
this book was a mess. definitely couldn’t picture clooney as foley again. ( )
  austinburns | Dec 16, 2021 |
I don't know how this one slipped under my radar. I stumbled across it in a secondhand bookstore. A hardcover Elmore for $4? I'm in.

And judging from the cover, I figured it for one of his older books, because I just bought it. I didn't even read what it's about. When it's Elmore Leonard, I don't screw around. He wrote it, I'm going to like it (well, except for his kid's book, A Coyote In The House.

Anyway, when I saw he'd actually written this book in 2009, and tied together the three main characters from Out of Sight, La Brava. and Riding The Rap...well damn. Like Lennon said, A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

This one's short, with the typical Leonard plot of everyone out to pretty much screw everyone else (literally and figuratively) that he does so damn well and never gets old. But it's full of his amazing characters, fantastic observances and that fantastic dialogue that nobody else can hold a candle to.

Damn, I miss Elmore Leonard. ( )
  TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 |
To call the narrative itself cinematic is a cliché. It’s partly true, but this writer doesn’t foolishly compete with cinema where cinema has the edge: his scenes of sex and violence are clever and brief, rapidly established to let the verbal engine of dialogue drive the story forward.
 

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Gentleman/banker-robber Jack Foley is back in prison doing a thirty-year sentence after a week-long escape. Brought in by Karen Sisco, US marshall, who got her man after being abducted with the escapees, Jack and Karen have a thing for each other, and Karen arrests him only after a meaningful 'time'out' together. Jack is resigning himself to doing time, lots of it, and he seems to have a friendly and easy control over the hardened criminals he is imprisoned with. This easiness is enhanced in the minds of others by his fame as a bank robber. It is this ease which impresses Cuando Rey, a Cuban refugee and criminal who is doing time for murder. Cuando arranges to have Foley's sentence hugely reduced, but has favors aplenty to ask when they're both released. Cuando's wife, Dawn, is pretending to be saintly all the while (whilst quite the opposite) under the negligent eye of The Monk, a gay accountant similarly in thrall to Cuando. Foley is freed, and, as he fears, Cuando wants to use him on a job, just as his every move is being scrutinised by FBI detective Lou Adams. In an instant, though, Dawn has seduced him, and she has an agenda all of her own.

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