Elmore Leonard: When the Women Come out to Dance

A collection of one novella and a bunch of firecracker short stories written over the last twenty years and featuring retired baseball players, US marshals, bank robbers, insurance investigators, Mexican housemaids and neo-Nazis as well as Leonard's usual suspects of low-lifes, lawmen and modern-day cowboys. Great characterization, great dialogue, great mini-dramas - a master writing at the top of his form.