Another week, another Elmore Leonard book. This time it was a collection of short stories that included his two most famous characters, U.S. marshals Raylan Givens and Karen Sisco. I've previously gone over who Raylan Givens is, so I don't need to really touch on that much again. Karen Sisco is from Leonard's novel Out of Sight, which is in line to be read soon. Filmgoers would recognize her as Jennifer Lopez from the film of the same name, which starred George Clooney.
The title story, Fire in the Hole, is the basis of the pilot episode from the TV show Justified. So a lot of it was familiar as I was going through the book. However, all the other stories were new territory, but after reading a couple of Elmore Leonard novels, each character felt familiar and it seemed like they could all be living in the same fictional universe.
This leads me into the final novel about U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. After that I will take a little break from Elmore Leonard, but jump back into his stories later with Out of Sight and City Primeval. I've never kept track of how many books I read in a certain amount of time, but I would never have thought I averaged one book per week.
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