Riding the Rap : A Novel

Featuring Raylan Givens from the FX series Justified, this sequel to Pronto is yet another crime story from the legendary Elmore Leonard that’ll keep readers on the edge of their seat straight through to the finish

It seemed like a brilliant idea. Three mismatched bad guys—a Palm Beach pot-head, a Bahamian ex–con, and a Puerto Rican gardener turned mob enforcer—get together to carry out the perfect crime: kidnap retired Miami bookie Harry Arno and let him pay the ransom with his ill–gotten wealth. He can’t go to the cops later. No one will miss him. It’s perfect. Or so they figure.

They figure wrong. Harry’s former girlfriend, ex–topless dancer Joyce Patton, misses him a lot. Now she’s sending her current boyfriend, Stetson–hatted Federal Marshall Raylan Givens, looking for Harry. And Raylan always gets his man. And in this case, he also gets his woman—the last person to see Harry, a sexy psychic named Dawn. Dawn may be clairvoyant, or she may be in on the kidnapping. Either way, she gives Raylan a lead, and he’s hunting on Florida’s 24–karat Gold Coast for three loco hombres…and trying to bring Harry back alive…