Published alongside Elmore Leonard's other classic Westerns HOMBRE and LAST STAND AT SABER RIVER VALDEZ IS COMING was made into a film starring Burt Lancaster and is Elmore Leonard's favourite Western. Terrific, eye-catching packaging for these books 'For sharp plots and spot-on dialogue, he's in a different league' Ian Rankin. 'Elmore Leonard may be the last hope for the written word' New York Observer. 'Elmore Leonard is up there at the top of the list' TLS. 'Writers don't come cooler than Elmore Leonard, with Hollywood players from Tarantino to Malkovich beating a path to his door' The Times.

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.