by Elmore Leonard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466302388
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«Jackie Brown» is the crime and suspense novel by Elmore Leonard, published by Punto de Lectura in 2001 in paperback (430 pages, in Spanish).
Jackie Brown, a flight attendant, uses her job to occasionally smuggle cash. The police blackmail her, the dealer Ordell Robbie tries to get his hands on the money he considers his, and Max seeks to sort out his life. They are all losers on the edge of the law.
Original title: «Rum Punch» (1992). It is the second installment in the «Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara» saga. It was adapted into a film by Quentin Tarantino in 1997.
For readers of crime fiction and fans of Quentin Tarantino, as this novel inspired the film.
Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story author and screenwriter. He was, according to British journalist Anthony Lane, "hailed as one of the best crime writers in the land". His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Among his best-known works are Hombre, Swag, City Primeval, LaBrava, Glitz, Freaky Deaky, Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight and Tishomingo Blues.
