Elmore Leonard – Out of Sight (1996)
"THE oldest unsolved mystery on the books, human love, is the case to crack in ''Out of Sight,'' Elmore Leonard's new novel,
in which the cop is a lady with a gift for meeting Mr. Wrong and the robber is a guy who just might have been, in a
different life, Mr. Right. It begins auspiciously with a prison break, a group of convicts tunneling out of the medium-security
Florida pen where Jack Foley, a career bank robber, is doing time after his third major fall....
And here, for this reader at least, ''Out of Sight'' slides off the road into an Everglades of incredibility.
For in order to accept the main action of the rest of the novel, we must now accept that both kidnapped and kidnapper --
a female Federal law-enforcement officer and the man who has robbed more banks than anyone in the F.B.I.'s computer --
experience in the trunk of a moving car a conversational intimacy that leaves them helplessly infatuated with each other,
even as Karen Sisco conceals a .38-caliber pistol between her legs. It's a bizarrely relocated movie ''cute meet,'' and the
busy scribes of Hollywood should be stealing pages from Elmore Leonard's book, not the other way around. "
~ Ralph Lombreglia - New York Times. Link:
KOBO Books and
Elmore Leonard [Wikipedia]
Elmore Leonard – Out of Sight (1996)
"THE oldest unsolved mystery on the books, human love, is the case to crack in ''Out of Sight,'' Elmore Leonard's new novel,
in which the cop is a lady with a gift for meeting Mr. Wrong and the robber is a guy who just might have been, in a
different life, Mr. Right. It begins auspiciously with a prison break, a group of convicts tunneling out of the medium-security
Florida pen where Jack Foley, a career bank robber, is doing time after his third major fall....
And here, for this reader at least, ''Out of Sight'' slides off the road into an Everglades of incredibility.
For in order to accept the main action of the rest of the novel, we must now accept that both kidnapped and kidnapper --
a female Federal law-enforcement officer and the man who has robbed more banks than anyone in the F.B.I.'s computer --
experience in the trunk of a moving car a conversational intimacy that leaves them helplessly infatuated with each other,
even as Karen Sisco conceals a .38-caliber pistol between her legs. It's a bizarrely relocated movie ''cute meet,'' and the
busy scribes of Hollywood should be stealing pages from Elmore Leonard's book, not the other way around. "
~ Ralph Lombreglia - New York Times. Link:
KOBO Books and
Elmore Leonard [Wikipedia]
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