Praise for MR.PARADISE: “The dialogue and the characters crackle ...MR. PARADISE is a perfect crime caper from a master.” - Detroit Free Press
“Smart writing about dumb crooks.” - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“...Rips along like a bandit’s getaway car...THE HOT KID is Leonard at his best.” - Tulsa World
“His 40th crime novel—and he just keeps getting better and better. ” - Deseret News
“THE HOT KID brims with the sly humor, sparse prose and razor dialogue we expect from the master” - Los Angeles Times Book Review
“The HOT KID is Elmore Leonard- a master- at his best.” - Oklahoma City Oklahoman
“Elmore Leonard unspools the definitive portrait of 1930s lowlife” - Boston Sunday Globe (Stephen King)
“This is a novel that... is all about style, literary and otherwise.” - New York Times Book Review
Clear, fast-paced and masterfully structured.” - Philadelphia Inquirer
“Wonderfully funny and hair-raising...THE HOT KID is splendid.” - Providence Sunday Journal
“No one is Leonard’s equal.” - Chicago Tribune
“...delivers the goods in a top-notch amalgam of sagebrush western and mob drama.” - Lexington Herald-Leader
“...expertly crafted, deftly balanced.” - Houston Chronicle
“There’s nothing Elmore Leonard doesn’t know about stylish writing, and THE HOT KID is him at his compressed best.” - Detroit Free Press
“The writing is pitch-perfect throughout...it’s all pure Leonard, and that means it’s pure terrific.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Crime fiction’s greatest living practitioner.” - Washington Post Book World
“His books defy classification …What Leonard does is write fully realized novels.” - Dallas Morning News