Larger	Labrava Author: Elmore Leonard
	Book Information Publisher: Perennial (HarperCollins) Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 1 Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9780688160975 - ISBN-10: 0688160972 Publication Date: 5/1998 Pages: 283

LaBrava is vintage Leonard: a blend of the true-to-life and the totally make-believe, the cinematic and the suspenseful, the world we know and a whole lot of worlds we're glad we don't. Only Leonard can concoct such a potent cocktail: one part raw humanity, one part pure insanity, a dash of lethal action, and his irresistible, eccentric spice.Joe La Brava is an ex-Secret Service agent who gets mixed up in a South Miami Beach scam involving a redneck former cop, a Cuban hit man who moonlights as a go-go dancer, and a one-time movie queen whose world is part make-believe, part deadly dangerous. This is vintage Leonard: fast-moving, pitch-perfect, and utterly, authentically irresistible.