Bandits Author:Elmore Leonard Elmore Leonard's Bandits is his most daring and accomplished novel to date.
An ex-con funeral home worker, his uncle who runs the funeral home, his prison buddy ex-cop, a nun, a Nicraguan Colonel and his cold-blooded enforcer, and a roster of Leonardesque characters chase each other for the prize: $5,000,000.
It's Elmore Leonard's most daring novel to date - and his characters have never been more vivd. There's Lucy, the slender ex-nun in pressed Calvins; and Roy, the ex-cop whose career was cut short by a prison term. Here in New Orleans they've stumbled onto cache of several million dollars on its way to the Nicaraguan contra - and they have a plan. Together they're going to make out like bandits.
Improbable but fun - this is a story of an ex-con and a nun working together to grab some loot that's been stashed near new Orleans. Some New Orleans flavor too.