The moonshine war - Elmore Leonard

Leonard is tops in his field.

-- New Orleans Times-Picayune The great Elmore Leonard, America's pre-eminent crime fiction writer ( Chicago Tribune ), takes readers back to Prohibition days in the back hills of Kentucky in a rollicking story of guns, greed, and illegally brewed corn liquor.

The Moonshine War is a tale of the chaos that ensues when a gang of city slickers sets out to steal thousands of dollars-worth of homemade whiskey from a hell-raising country boy--who is anything but the easy mark they were expecting.

A rediscovered Elmore Leonard classic, The Moonshine War is a wild ride bursting with the author's hallmark delights: the twisty plot, the gripping suspense, the wit and, of course, the razor-sharp dialogue.

It's no wonder that the creator of U.

Marshal Raylan Givens--lately the star of the hit TV series Justified --is always listed among the mystery and crime fiction elite, including John D.

MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M.

Cain, and Robert Parker, and often at the very top of the list.