Split Images Author:Elmore Leonard As compellingly original as his last novel, City Primeval, Leonard's Split Images is an extraordinary story of crime and retribution which introduces Bryan Hurd, Detroit homicide lieutenant, who must track an all-but-invisible assassin - in Motown Detroit, in posh Miami - to prevent him from executing his ultimate coup. A singular man for all s... more »easons, Hurd is as gentle in love as he is ruthless in the art of investigating crime, a cool hand who doesn't always keep his emotions under wraps.« less
Elmore Leonard at his best. But then, when isn't he at his best. Still, having read almost everything he's written this one goes near the top of the list.