Grand Get better at Elmore Leonard is justifiably known as “the very best writer of criminal offense fiction alive” (Newsweek)-and, actually, among the absolute best ever, alongside additional all-time greats like John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, Wayne M. Cain, and Robert Parker. But he has also many acclaimed masterworks of American traditional western fiction to his credit-including Hombre, the basis for the traditional Hollywood motion picture starring Paul Newman. Occur Arizona mining country, Hombre is the tale of the white man raised by Indians, who must arrive to aid from people who hate him when their stagecoach can be attacked by outlaws. As exciting as his modern novels of crime, double-cross, and murder in Detroit and Miami, Hombre is certainly Elmore Leonard at his riveting best-no less than one would anticipate from your inventor of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Justified).