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Raylan Givens Series

This series follows an unorthodox federal marshal navigating the blurred lines of law enforcement to bring criminals to justice. Each case presents complex moral quandaries and dangerous adversaries, often forcing him to confront his own troubled past. It offers a gritty exploration of good versus evil set against the rugged backdrop of the American South. Readers can expect compelling characters and unpredictable plot twists.

Stile Libero - Noir: Quando le donne aprono le danze
Fire in the Hole
When the Women Come Out to Dance
Raylan
Riding the Rap
Pronto

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    Pronto

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    Well-known South Miami Beach bookie Harry Arno was grossing seven thousand a week running sports bets. He split fifty-fifty with local wiseguy Jimmy Capotorto, aka Jimmy Cap, but by skimming off the top for twenty years, Harry had stashed away enough to retire. Everything was set for his name-change and vanishing act to the Italian Riviera with his girlfirend, Joyce (Joy, when she was a topless dancer), right after the Super Bowl. Harry Arno felt like a lucky man. He felt wrong. An FBI assault on organized crime had targeted Jimmy Cap, and Harry was set up as the fall guy to help them do it. Now "Zip," a Sicilian in a classic black suit, had a reason to want Harry dead. Raylan Givens, a Stetson-wearing U.S. marshal, had the job of keeping him alive. And from Miami to Rapallo, Italy, Harry Arno had plans of his own to clean up the past, guarantee his future...and let drawling Raylan Givens go one-on-one across two continents with the mob.

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    Raylan

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    “Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today.” —New York Times Book Review With more than forty novels to his credit and still going strong, the legendary Elmore Leonard has well earned the title, “America’s greatest crime writer” (Newsweek). And U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Pronto, Riding the Rap, Fire in the Hole) is one of Leonard’s most popular creations, thanks in part to the phenomenal success of the hit TV series “Justified.” Leonard’s Raylan shines a spotlight once again on the dedicated, if somewhat trigger-happy lawman, this time in his familiar but not particularly cozy milieu of Harlan County, Kentucky, where the drug dealing Crowe brothers are branching out into the human body parts business. Suspenseful, darkly wry and riveting, and crackling with Leonard’s trademark electric dialogue, Raylan is prime Grand Master Leonard as you have always loved him and always will.

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  4. When the Women Come Out to Dance

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    This textbook focuses on the substantive law that governs freedom of expression in the media. The work bases the discussions of the substantive law on the print media, as the press, unlike broadcasting, is substantially unregulated and this lack of regulation raises issues of particular concern regarding the limits of media freedom. The book also considers the contrasting models for control of the media and the impact of the Internet upon them. It covers the impact of the Human Rights Act on media regulation and broadcasting regulation in particular, drawing upon a wide range of sources from the UK, Europe and the USA.

    When the Women Come Out to Dance

  5. Fire in the Hole

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    In this superb short fiction collection, Elmore Leonard, “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever” (New York Times Book Review), once again illustrates how the line between the law and the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might think. In the title story, the basis for the hit FX series Justified, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens meets up with an old friend, but they’re now on different sides of the law. Federal marshal Karen Sisco, from Out of Sight, returns in “Karen Makes Out,” once again inadvertently mixing pleasure with business. In “When the Women Come Out to Dance,” Mrs. Mahmood gets more than she bargains for when she conspires with her maid to end her unhappy marriage. These nine stories are the great Elmore Leonard at his vivid, hilarious, and unfailingly human best.

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  6. Stile Libero - Noir: Quando le donne aprono le danze

    • 219 pages
    • 8 hours of reading

    Il mondo è quello dello show-business, che per Elmore Leonard vuol dire tutto il mondo: dal cinema hollywoodiano allo sport, dal rodeo allo strip-tease, dai gironi dell'immigrazione clandestina alle sette nazi-punk, con sconfinamenti nel selvaggio West. Il clima è quello esilarante, allucinato, della sua migliore narrativa: dialoghi laconici e folgoranti, situazioni paradossali e tragiche, eroi sempre in bilico tra legge e illegalità. Protagoniste sono le donne. Che devono affrontare innamorati banditi, mariti criminali o agenti delle assicurazioni troppo ligi al dovere. E li affrontano con le armi della seduzione, con una sessualità dirompente, con astuzia e coraggio e, all'occorrenza, con una calibro 45 o un fucile a pompa.

    Stile Libero - Noir: Quando le donne aprono le danze