The Trespassers

The Trespassers

This never-before-published story is a chilling forebear to the tales that made the late, great Elmore Leonard the â€œKing Daddyâ€ of crime with a twist. Told from the perspective of a young wife whoâ€™s become increasingly frustrated with her mild-mannered husband, â€œThe Trespassersâ€ begins as a quiet domestic drama and quickly escalates into a nightmare. When Evan refuses to confront men who are illegally hunting on the coupleâ€™s remote homestead, Chris takes matters into her own hands, with terrifying results.

Written in 1958, when Leonard was working at a Detroit advertising agency and writing short stories on the side, â€œThe Trespassersâ€ shows the emerging talent of a man whose spare style and dark wit would redefine a literary genre. Filled with as much sexual menace as Sam Peckinpahâ€™s classic thriller â€œStraw Dogs,â€ this timelessly relevant story delivers a sly surprise that could only come from the mind of Elmore Leonard.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Elmore Leonard wrote forty-five novels across his six-decade career, including the bestsellers â€œRoad Dogs,â€ â€œUp in Honeyâ€™s Room,â€ â€œThe Hot Kid,â€ â€œMr. Paradise,â€ â€œTishomingo Blues,â€ and the critically acclaimed collection of short stories â€œWhen the Women Come Out to Dance.â€ Many of his books have been made into movies, including â€œGet Shorty,â€ â€œOut of Sight,â€ and â€œJackie Brown.â€ â€œJustified,â€ the hit series from FX, is based on Leonardâ€™s character Raylan Givens, who appears in â€œRiding the Rap,â€ â€œPronto,â€ the short story â€œFire in the Hole,â€ and the novel â€œRaylan.â€ Leonard received the National Book Foundationâ€™s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA, and the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America. He was known to many as the â€œDickens of Detroitâ€ and had lived in the Detroit area since 1934.

PRAISE FOR ELMORE LEONARD

â€œElmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today.â€ â€”The New York Times Book Review

â€œThere is no greater writer of crime fiction than Elmore Leonard, and no one who has more resplendent energy.â€ â€”The Guardian (UK)

â€œElmore â€˜Dutchâ€™ Leonard is more than just one of the all-time greats of crime fiction. Heâ€™s â€¦ an authentic American icon.â€ â€”The Seattle Times

â€œPeople look on writers that they like as an irreplaceable resource. I do. Elmore Leonard, every day I wake up andâ€”not to be morbid or anything, although morbid is my life to a degreeâ€”donâ€™t see his obituary in the paper, I think to myself, â€˜Great! Heâ€™s probably working somewhere. Heâ€™s gonna produce another book, and Iâ€™ll have another book to read.â€™ Because when heâ€™s gone, thereâ€™s nobody else.â€ â€” Stephen King

â€œThe King Daddy of crime novelists.â€ â€”The Seattle Times

â€œAs crime fiction goes, Leonard has few living equals. His characters leap from the page with a few short keystrokes, like a form of bloodstained haiku.â€
â€”The Cleveland Plain Dealer

â€œ[Leonardâ€™s] finely honed sentences can sound as flinty/poetic as Hemingway or as hard-boiled as Raymond Chandler. His ear for the way people talkâ€”or shouldâ€”is peerless.â€ â€”The Detroit News

â€œA master of narrative â€¦ A poet of the vernacular â€¦ Leonard paints an intimate, precise, funny, frightening, and irresistible mural of the American underworld.â€
â€”The New Yorker

â€œElmore Leonard may be the last hope for the written word.â€ â€”The New York Observer

Country	USA
Author	Elmore Leonard
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781614520924
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Byliner Inc.
Manufacturer	Byliner Inc.
NumberOfPages	30
PublicationDate	2013-12-30
Publisher	Byliner Inc.
ReleaseDate	2013-12-30
Studio	Byliner Inc.

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