Swag Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

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Original Title:	Swag
ISBN:	0753819643 (ISBN13: 9780753819647)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Frank Ryan, Ernest Stickley, Jr.

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This "brilliant caper" (New York Times) from bestselling author Elmore Leonard is a rollicking tale of modern urban crime featuring a cast of small-time criminals with big-time dreams.

Ernest Stickley Jr. figures his luck's about to change when Detroit used-car salesman Frank Ryan catches him trying to boost a ride from Ryan's lot. Frank's got some surefire schemes for getting rich quick--all of them involving guns--and all Stickley has to do is follow "Ryan's Rules" to share the wealth.

But sometimes rules need to be bent, maybe even broken to succeed in the world of crime, especially when the "brains" of the operation knows less than nothing.

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Title	:	Swag
Author	:	Elmore Leonard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2005 by Phoenix (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Crime

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What do I think?I think it's absolutely brilliant.I'll write more when I'm sober.Oh Christ - I have to write more words.I have a lot to say about this novel.Just ...hell... not tonight.I'm already off on the 2nd "Frank Ryan" novel: which is not the cover of the edition I'm reading.Spoiler: Frank Ryan isn't the same Frank Ryan as appears in this novel. He's "Jack Ryan" again from .But that's all in the future.More later.Here's my dashed off review:This is supposedly the second entry in the

Dialogue can really make or break a novel for me. Good thing Elmore Leonard could write it so well I'd imagine even Tarantino gets jealous occasionally. In fact, this novel as a whole reminded me of 90s-era Tarantino, to the point where I was actually picturing Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs characters while reading. The setup is pretty basic. We follow two charismatic, low-level hoods in Detroit who decide to team-up, knocking off liquor stores, bars, grocery stores, etc, taking more risks the



I may be on a Leonard kick for the rest of the Summer. It started with his most recent book, Road Dogs, which led me -- probably via an Amazon.com recommendation, to one of his first published crime stories. Set in Detroit, Swag is the first of what becomes a series of stories about a car thief turned armed robber named Stick. Stick is a cool guy and like most of Leonard's work, this story just moves.In fact, I was late to work one day this week because I got caught up in the last 3rd of the

Dialogue can really make or break a novel for me. Good thing Elmore Leonard could write it so well I'd imagine even Tarantino gets jealous occasionally. In fact, this novel as a whole reminded me of 90s-era Tarantino, to the point where I was actually picturing Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs characters while reading. The setup is pretty basic. We follow two charismatic, low-level hoods in Detroit who decide to team-up, knocking off liquor stores, bars, grocery stores, etc, taking more risks the

We're so used to Elmore Leonard being an icon of modern crime fiction that it's hard to remember that back in the 1960s and 1970s he was just another genre author, more known for his Westerns than the crime novels he began turning out in 1969. It's even harder to remember that he didn't spring out of the ground fully-formed; he had to learn how to be Elmore Leonard. Swag, the third of his Detroit-based crime stories, is an example of Leonard in progress but not yet the king.Ernest "Stick"

Im blown away by my first Elmore Leonard and must soon read another. On the face of it Swag is a smallish story, sparely told, about two small-time crooks in 1970s Detroit, but Leonards subtle art makes it so much more. He trusts the reader to know what isnt written the laughs, the plot implications, the dilemmas, the deepening psychology. I found myself caring a lot for I-wont-say-whom without once being told to care, Leonards methods are so unobtrusive. The characters are real, flawed, funny.