Road Dogs: A Novel

“Road Dogs is terrific, and Elmore Leonard is in a class of one.”
—Dennis Lehane, author of Shutter Island and Mystic River

“You know from the first sentence that you’re in the hands of the original Daddy Cool....This one’ll kill you.”
—Stephen King

Legendary New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard returns with three of his favorite characters: Jack Foley from Out of Sight, Cundo Rey from LaBrava, and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap.

Jack Foley, the charming bank robber from Out of Sight, is serving a thirty-year sentence in a Miami penitentiary, but he's made an unlikely friend on the inside who just might be able to do something about that. Fellow inmate Cundo Rey, an extremely wealthy Cuban criminal, arranges for Foley's sentence to be reduced from thirty years to three months, and when Jack is released just two weeks ahead of Cundo, he agrees to wait for him in Venice Beach, California.

Also waiting for Cundo is his common-law wife, Dawn Navarro, a professional psychic with a slightly ulterior motive for staying with Cundo: namely, she wants his money. And with the arrival of Jack, she sees the perfect partner in a plan to relieve Cundo of his fortune. Cundo may be Jack's friend, but does that mean he can trust him? And can either of them trust Dawn?

Road Dogs is Elmore Leonard at his best—with his trademark tight plotting and pitch-perfect dialogue—and readers will love seeing Cundo, Jack, and Dawn back in action and working together . . . or are they?

[Elmore Leonard] has created his own fictional world that we are privileged to visit now and then.... Leonard commands such a broad spectrum of fans that he might justifiably be called America’s Author. However, titles matter little; what truly counts is his ability to deliver a capital story splendidly told. Readers, rejoice! The beat goes on.” - San Diego Union-Tribune on ROAD DOGS

“There are hundreds of men and women who, in the twilight of their careers, should be regarded as national treasures... To that list let us add...Elmore Leonard, whose new book, Road Dogs, is yet another gem in a career that has endured for more than half a century...There is clearly more fun to be had here, and Leonard, the hippest, funniest national treasure in sight, is the man to prove it.” - Washington Post

“Road Dogs is vintage Leonard—a sly, violent, funny and superbly written story of friendship, greed and betrayal. It’s the writer’s 43rd novel, Leonard still at the top of his game.” - Bruce DeSilva, San Francisco Chronicle

“Leonard’s works constitute a genre all by themselves. If imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, the Michigan writer must be the most flattered author alive. Because he makes it look easy.” - Detroit Free Press

“Road Dogs is terrific, and Elmore Leonard is in a class of one. Not only does he have no equal, he doesn’t even have a legitimate contender. He makes it look so effortless that if he wasn’t the greatest crime writer who ever lived I might have to hate him. But he is, so I just tip my hat.” - Dennis Lehane

“Leonard writes with high style, great energy, unflappable cool and a jubilant love of the game. As ever, his scorn for fussy prose is best expressed through his own superbly lean locutions.” - New York Times on ROAD DOGS