Elmore Leonard

How To Handle A Repo: Chapter 1 Of Elmore Leonard's <em>Unknown Man No. 89</em>

Elmore Leonard had been writing for 22 years when his agent, the legendary H.N. Swanson, told him to read George V. Higgins's seminal crime novel about the Boston underworld, The Friends of Eddie Coyle. This was in 1972; Leonard was 46. He'd worked in advertising and written westerns—stories and ...