The Big Bounce | 
so-soThis was Leonard's first crime novel, after several westerns. It's not bad: it's the kind of bad-people-behaving-badly story he later perfected. The prose and dialog are already sharp. The plot feels thin, though, and the ending contrived. And while it feels a little weird to complain about it in a book about crooks and thugs, I could have done without the casual racism and misogyny. (Violence and larceny are fine -- they're what I came for.)
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