Killshot | 
| Author: Elmore Leonard
Creator: Bruce Boxleitner
Publisher: Phoenix Audio
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 1721241
Format: Abridged, Audiobook, Cd
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Abridged
Number Of Items: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 4.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1597770922
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781597770927
ASIN: 1597770922
Publication Date: April 13, 2006
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Condition: factory sealed
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Product Description
Ironworker Wayne Colson and his spirited wife Carmen are witnesses to a shakedown scam--witnesses who must be eliminated--in one of Elmore Leonard's all-time great novels. Abridged. 3 CDs.
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E-book extras: "Martin Amis Interviews 'The Dickens of Detroit'"; Elmore Leonard's "If It Sounds Like Writing, Rewrite It"; "All By Elmore: The Crime Novels
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 "IT'S NICE TO BE NICE..." May 26, 2008
Only Elmore Leonard can humorously dress a maniac, two-bit criminal like Richie Nix in a t-shirt with that kind of statement... and it is Richie that ultimately F*#!'S everything up in Leonard's crazy world of crime. Ritchie meets his match when he tries to roll Armand Degas "The Blackbird,"-- a real hitman, and they come to an agreement at gunpoint to do business together. Their scheme goes south when they encounter the wrong couple: The Colsons. Carmen Colson, the wife, is everything you want out of a female lead: smart, sexy, resourceful. Killshot is highly entertaining like Tishomingo Blues (one of my favorite Elmore Leonard books). Killshot's characters are solid, indelible and always hilarious. Richie Nix's girlfriend's obsession with Elvis Presley and her dialogue with Armand is laugh-out-loud funny. The locations of Killshot spoke to me personally, having grown up in Detroit-- my mother used to live in Algonac and we took trips to Toronto. Leonard, for me, stirred nostalgia from the St. Clair River Drive, Port Huron, Sarnia, the Blue Water Bridge and Selfridge Air National Guard, Harsens Island Ferry, to the 94 Freeway. I recommend Killshot and hope the film holds up to the book.
'Killshot' is a Great Crime Novel March 29, 2008
It is almost impossible to gage Elmore Leonard on his own merits anymore, as there have been so many people eager to copy his style. His books elevate the crime story to something more than a simple genre yarn, and I'm sure that he's aware of such a fact.
'Killshot' is no different. While other novels of his can be construed as being about 'people' (or 'characters') instead of 'things', I don't think such an argument can be made for 'Killshot'. While crime and character are not necessarily mutually exclusive in the book, 'Killshot' seems to be about more than just the characters or the crime. There exists in the book a lot more nuance than readers of genre fiction are used to. The Colsons, Degas, even Donna, possess that very touch of nuance that takes the book from good to memorable.
As always, Elmore Leonard doesn't allow you to care about the characters. He FORCES you to feel for them, even the more heinous of them. And he does so in a way that you, as the reader, are unaware of until later in the book. It's absolutely genius. Armand Degas - sorry, Colsons - steals every scene and pretty much the book as a whole. Although ever character is finely drawn, Degas may be the finest of them all.
I highly recommend this book to any crime fiction reader and especially to any reader of Leonard's who hasn't tackled this book.
"suspense" March 22, 2008
I've read all of Elmore Leonard's westerns and especially liked VALDEZ IS COMING and FORTY LASHES LESS ONE. STICK was my first crime novel and is very good, but KILLSHOT is great! One of the most suspenseful and engaging books I've read.
Great Read July 14, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Was not familiar with this author's work before (although movies have been made for several of his books). Thought this book was a great lark! A well-written action story with memorable characters. A wry sense of humor pervades the story-line. I found it hard to put down and have now put Elmore Thomas on my author's list for more reads by this creative writer.
Unabridged Audio Book October 4, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Rider Strong reads this book with an impassioned, evocative style. I really like the way he reads one of the main characters, Armand Degas, an Ojibway. He gets the deep tone and cadence down pat. It must have been how Elmore Leonard heard the character as he was writing Armand.
The ADHD-type 35-year old adolescent criminal Ritchie is read in a snotty tone with a sniveling pace - perfect.
While it's often hard for men to voice women's characters, I thought Rider Strong did a decent job with the women of this story. Leonard's female characters are some of my favorite literary women. Killshot's Carmen Colson is realistically feminine, brave AND human all at once.
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