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Article: Elmore Leonard makes out like a `Bandit'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 17, 1987
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WASHINGTON He packs more into one line of dialogue than Marvelous
Marvin Hagler's right uppercut, but scoring the knockout took more
than a decade.
"Why do you think it took so long?" he asks. "Why didn't I catch
on in the late '70s?"
Maybe it was timing, maybe it was marketing, maybe it was just
luck.
But Elmore Leonard, who looks like everyone's favorite English
professor, is clearly enjoying his "overnight" success.
Dubbed by Newsweek magazine "the greatest crime writer in
America," Leonard is riding the best-seller crest with Bandits, a
taut tale about an ex-con, an ex-cop and an ex-nun - with strictly
altruistic motives, of course - who decide to relieve a Nicaraguan
contra ...