Best Elmore Leonard
Valdez Is Coming is a 1970 Western novel by American writer Elmore Leonard. It follows Bob Valdez, a Mexican-American constable who seeks compensation for the family of a man wrongly killed after a confrontation manipulated by the rancher Frank Tanner. When Tanner and his associates answer the reque...
"Last Stand at Saber River" is a 1967 Western novel by acclaimed author Elmore Leonard set in the aftermath of the American Civil War. The narrative follows Paul Cable, a former Confederate soldier who travels back to his homestead in the Arizona Territory. Upon arriving, he discovers his ranch has...
This 1954 western novel by Elmore Leonard focuses on a young deputy sheriff who must uphold the law against wealthy cattlemen, highlighting the author's early moral complexity.
Forty Lashes Less One is a 1972 Western novel by American writer Elmore Leonard. Set in territorial Arizona, it follows two prisoners, Harold Jackson, a Black former soldier, and Raymond San Carlos, a Chiricahua Apache, who are recruited to pursue dangerous fugitives in exchange for the possibility...
Gunsights is a Western novel by American writer Elmore Leonard, published in 1979. Set in the American Southwest, it presents a conflict between a frontier scout and a former friend associated with a corrupt mining company, combining Leonard's interest in violence, shifting loyalties, and the pressu...
The Bounty Hunters is Elmore Leonard's first published novel and a Western set in the Arizona Territory and Mexico. Published in 1953, it follows David Flynn, a former U.S. cavalryman turned army scout, who is sent with the young lieutenant Bowers to track the Apache leader Soldado Viejo. The book i...
Escape from Five Shadows is a Western novel by Elmore Leonard, first published in 1956. It follows a man confined in Five Shadows, a remote desert prison camp, and his effort to survive the institution and regain his freedom. The book belongs to Leonard's early Western fiction, before the crime nove...
