La Brava by Elmore Leonard [1984 PAPERBACK] • Avon Books

La Brava by Elmore Leonard

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1983] AVON BOOKS 

10th Avon printing of this classic Leonard title w/ rare 80's checkerboard cover!

Book has been read but is in very good condition.  Cover looks great with some read wear to spine.  Pages have tanning but otherwise look and read good as new.

Winner of the 1984 Edgar Award for best novel.

New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard delivers his trademark blend of action, sex, violence, humor, and hard-boiled suspense in this thrilling crime classic, LaBrava.

Joe La Brava is an ex–Secret Service agent who gets mixed up in a South Miami Beach scam involving a redneck former cop, a Cuban hit man who moonlights as a go-go dancer, and a one-time movie queen whose world is part make-believe, part deadly dangerous. Fast-moving, pitch-perfect, and utterly irresistible, LaBrava is, “vintage Leonard: a blend of the true-to-life and the totally make-believe, the cinematic and the suspenseful, the world we know and a whole lot of worlds we’re glad we don’t.