Article: THE RETURN OF ELMORE LEONARD

FREAKY DEAKY, by Elmore Leonard. Arbor House/William

Morrow. 341 pp. $18.95.

Elmore Leonard is back, and with a cast of low-life, foul-mouthed double-crossing creeps who are up to no good. This is just how you want it to be in the world of Elmore Leonard.

"Freaky Deaky" is Leonard's 26th novel. He wrote most of the earlier ones outside the spotlight of literary discussion; he held the attention of readers who weren't interested in that kind of thing. Then, with "Stick" and "LaBrava," Leonard became a star, and he seemed to lose his footing a little, even though nearly every new book outsold its predecessor. There were points when you could even say that Leonard was playing ...

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