ARGONAUT BOOKS

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. Reviews 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 ...Read More