Book description
From America's top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino's hit film JACKIE BROWN
Jackie, a flight attendant with a serious side hustle, is about to get grounded...
She's just got busted smuggling large amounts of hot money on the Caribbean-Florida run, and now the Feds are pressuring…
Why read it?
1 author picked Rum Punch as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A lot of my favorite Leonard books are set in Detroit, where he lived, but I’m particularly drawn to his books set in the Sunshine State.
I picked Rum Punch, because it inspired one of my favorite movies, Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. Leonard’s crooks are as colorful and often as likable as his good guys. In fact, what I love about Leonard is that all his characters have some good and bad blended together. His dialogue cracks like a loaded Luger, and his low-life tales are often laugh-out-loud funny.
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