- Paperback: 297 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (31 Dec 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385332807
- ISBN-13: 978-0385332804
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,749,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Rum Punch
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
Jackie Burke's future looks grim. She's been a flight attendant for twenty years and she's down to working for an island-hopping airline the day she lands in Palm Beach International with fifty grand and is taken into custody. The Feds know Jackie works for a man who sells machine guns to bad guys, but they don't know his name. Jackie looks at her options. She can tell what she knows about Ordell Robbie, the gun dealer, and get off--except that if Ordell suspects you're talking about him, you're dead. Or she can keep her mouth shut and do five years. Then she meets Max Cherry--late fifties, recently separated, and just starting to think that maybe there's more to life than being a bail bondsman--and sees she has more options than she thought.
Max is hooked on Jackie from the first time he sees her. But when he meets Ordell, he has quite a different reaction. Nineteen years a bail bondsman, Max knows trouble when he sees it.
Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Feds off against the bad guys and walk off with Ordell's money, but she needs Max's help. Max allows himself to be drawn in just to stay near Jackie, yet he can't help but wonder if he's being used. As for Ordell, he's making it now after years of busted deals. No one is going to stand in the way of his million-dollar payoff...
Max is hooked on Jackie from the first time he sees her. But when he meets Ordell, he has quite a different reaction. Nineteen years a bail bondsman, Max knows trouble when he sees it.
Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Feds off against the bad guys and walk off with Ordell's money, but she needs Max's help. Max allows himself to be drawn in just to stay near Jackie, yet he can't help but wonder if he's being used. As for Ordell, he's making it now after years of busted deals. No one is going to stand in the way of his million-dollar payoff...
About the Author
Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books during his highly successful career, and many of his novels have been made into bestselling films. He has been named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America and lives in Bloomfield Village, Michigan, with his wife Christine.
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Rum Punch is a wonderfully written novel, which follows the story of Ordell a low life self centered crook who is involved in a story line which throws the reader off into many different fellings and thoughts. A must for all Elmore Leonard fans and those who have watched the film "Jackie Brown" by Quentin Tarantino.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
If you've never read an Elmore Leonard book, you better get your ass up and get reading! For a man in his seventies it would be suffice to say that he isn't an out of touch old man, but quite the opposite. He's so observeant of peoples traits that his casts personas never miss a beat. The plot in this novel comes secondary to the sharp dialogue and the querky characters- as in all Elmores stories. He captures beautifully, the walk and talk of every character. A slow ex-con, a disenchanted bail bondsman, a cowboy ATF agent, a street smart gun dealer, a hopped up beach babe and last but not least-Jackie Burke; an air stewardess with brains, balls and panache to help get her through her problems with the ATF and the hip-cat killer Ordell Robie. So trust me on this, Elmore's one of the master writers out there today that deserves every word of praise he can get. And oh yeah if you're thinking of getting 'Jackie Brown' I'd advise you to get 'The Switch' first as it is the first story about Melanie, Ordell and Louis Gara.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
How do you EVER put ensemble a cast including, a 44 year old stewardess, a bail bondsman, and ex-con, a gunrunner, a dirty harry wannabe superstar ATF agent, and a spaced out beach bunny. I don't know but Mr Leonard does so with incredible style. His skills of writing and Quentin Tarantino's moviemaking make one heck of a duo.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Another excellent Leonard thriller
This is a crime thriller set in Florida. There are three main characters: a gangster called Ordell Robbie, a bail bondsman called Max Cherry, and an air hostess called Jackie... Read more
Published 9 days ago by Brian R. Martin
Punch drunk
Typical, but not Elmore Leonard at his best. The plot is somewhat obscure and slow. The characters are neither interesting nor amusing.
Published 11 months ago by Ocras
Master of dialogue - master of crime writing.
No one else comes near to Elmore Leonard's tight story lines, sharp dialogue or observational insight into the criminal mind. Read more
Published 16 months ago by M. D. Budd
Sharp page turner
Ordell Robbie is a slick operator, or so he thinks, procuring guns to order and at healthy prices. One recorded brush with the law a long time ago sets him apart from the... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mick Read
Two hoods meet up again
Thirteen years after publishing "The Switch", EL reunites the crime pair of Ordell Robbie (OR) and Louis Gara (LG) as well as Mr. Read more
Published on 28 May 2010 by P. A. Doornbos
Punch Drunk Love
Love him or loath him, Quentin Tarantino has made some decent films which he mostly wrote himself. One exception is `Jackie Brown' based on `Rum Punch' by Elmore Leonard. Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2010 by Sam
A classic piece of American Literature
Fantastic book! From page one it's entertaining and engaging. In Ordell Robbie, Leonard has created one of the great anti-heroes in literature, a character who was memorably... Read more
Published on 10 Jun 2009 by Nostromo
It's the dialogue, dummy, the dialogue!
I read this after seeing the movie Jackie Brown and not having read any Elmore Leonard books to date wanted to go and examine the source material. Read more
Published on 12 April 2009 by Siriam
This book was a perfect plot for the movie
How do you EVER put ensemble a cast including, a 44 year old stewardess, a bail bondsman, and ex-con, a gunrunner, a dirty harry wannabe superstar ATF agent, and a spaced out... Read more
Published on 5 Mar 1999
Good crime novel
Elmore Leonard is great as usual. The movies are great as are the books which they are based on eg Get shorty Jackie Browne, and Out of Sight
Published on 8 July 1998
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
