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Bandits (Paperback)

by Elmore Leonard (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (3 Oct 1988)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140099050
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140099058
  • Product Dimensions: 18 x 11 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 743,101 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Frank Matisse had specialized in stealing from hotel rooms but was trying hard to go straight. He meets Dick Nichols in New Orleans and discovers that he was raising money for the Contras, although his daughter, Lucy, doesn't want the money to arrive in Nicaragua. From the author of "Glitz".

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Another "Issue" Book That's Not Quite Up To Par, 18 Jan 2005
By A. Ross (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bandits (Mass Market Paperback)
Elmore Leonard is one of the master craftsmen of modern crime writing, and every now and then, he slips in an "issue" book. Back in 1982 it was "Cat Chaser", which wove in U.S. backing of death squads in the Dominican Republic in the '60s. In 2000, it was "Pagan Babies", which wove in the in Rwandan genocide. This book, which was originally published in 1986, weaves in U.S. support for the Contras in Nicaragua. I haven't read "Cat Chaser", but both "Pagan Babies" and "Bandits" seem to suffer in comparison with Leonard's more traditional crime capers. Certainly the elements are in place: a heist caper with a likeable ex-con, a tough pretty lady, supported by a duo of misfits (AARP-eligible ex-bank robber, moody tough-guy ex-con bartender) taking on a thoroughly evil and disgusting bad guy. And yet the pacing just isn't quite right, perhaps because the book seems to be more character-driven than plot-driven. It doesn't help that the book is set in New Orleans, an atmospheric city that never comes to life on the page.

The gist of the plot is that ex-model, ex-con Jack is sick of working at his brother-in-law's funeral home. When the pretty nun Sister Lucy enters his life, enlisting his aid in helping a woman escape from a Nicaraguan Contra colonel, he's willing to listen when she proposes a scam. It seems the leper hospital Lucy worked at in Nicaragua was wiped out by Contra forces under the colonel's command, and she's looking for some payback. And since the colonel is on a fundraising trip through the southern U.S., he's going to be loaded... Alas, despite lots of coming and going, things proceed rather slowly. Some of the supporting characters are much flatter than one expects from Leonard, for example the enigmatic Indian Franklin de Dios, and the CIA agent. Meanwhile, other more vivid ones are entirely extraneous to the story, such as the IRA operative who walks into and out of the book within pages.

So, while I applaud Leonard's occasional effort to bring to light some of the nasty goings on around the world, these books, while enjoyable enough, just aren't written at the same level as most of his work.

PS. There's a cute little moment where the main character busts on the 1969 film version of Leonard's book "The Big Bounce". I hate to think what he would say about the latest version...

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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of Leonard's finest, 28 Aug 2001
By Jay (eejut@hotmail.com) (Black Country, England) - See all my reviews
A great read, charachters that come alive, you're four chapters in before you realise that you only meant to read the first page. Full of twist, one liners, dangerous people and moral ambiguity. If youve read Leonard before, you'll know the magic to expect here, if you havent read him yet, buy this book.
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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A dark and compelling look into the American Truth, 18 Feb 2001
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This story may be fiction, but when reading it one enters a special world in which the words become a special kind of reality. I would highly recommend this to fans of both Leonard and his compatriate James Ellroy. Superb.
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