Picket Line and Other Stories
$21.24
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2026
Summary
Three previously unpublished stories by the master of tense set-ups.
These three stories—’Picket Line’, ‘Chick Killer’ and ‘Ice Man’—show Elmore Leonard at his most terse and harsh, able to conjure up a sense of profound unease and injustice in just a few words.
The main story ‘Picket Line’ describes a tense stand-off between migrant workers in Texas, police and labour organisers in a brilliantly orchestrated series of arguments and negotiations, with the potential for terribl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241755396 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241755395 |
| Author: | Elmore Leonard |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 91g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage |
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Like all of Leonard’s books, Picket Line is a taut and engaging tale. Crime dramas made Leonard famous, but this is a social-justice story… . Leonard renders their adventures and their thoughts in spare, elegant, Hemingway-inspired prose… . Picket Line builds a convincing portrait of the spirit of a lost, idealistic age… . It has the cinematic mastery of scene and dialogue that characterized Leonard’s later works – Héctor Tobar * The New York Times *
About The Author
Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) began his long and extraordinary career as a writer of Westerns, most famously a story which was made into the film 3-10 To Yuma. He then became known for his remarkable sequence of crime novels, generally set in Michigan or Florida. A master of funny and threatening dialogue, his influence has been incalculable. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN US and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
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