Pronto by Elmore Leonard
By Mechanics' Institute
Date and time
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 · 5:30 - 6:30pm PDT
Location
Mechanics' Institute
4th Floor Board Room 57 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94104Description
First Wednesday Mystery Book Group
Known for his roller-coaster plots, colorful settings, and diverse shady characters, Leonard opens this international caper in South Miami Beach. An aging bookie leaves his topless-dancer girlfriend for early retirement when he learns he's about to be the scapegoat in a sting. As he becomes a fugtive in Italy, dodging both the law and the Mafia, the righteous Kentucky-born, cowboy-hatted U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens goes after him. Pronto introduced Givens, who starred in several more novels and stories and the FX series Justified, where he was played by Timothy Olyphant. The New York Times Book Review called Elmore Leonard “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever.”