{"product_id":"picket-line-and-other-stories","title":"Picket Line and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree stories - the never-before-published 'Picket Line', along with 'Chick Killer' and 'Ice Man' - showing Elmore Leonard at his most terse and thrilling \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Like all of Leonard's books, \u003ci\u003ePicket Line\u003c\/i\u003e is a taut and engaging tale. Crime dramas made Leonard famous, but this is a social-justice story. . . . Leonard renders their adventures and their thoughts in spare, elegant, Hemingway-inspired prose. . . . \u003ci\u003ePicket Line\u003c\/i\u003e builds a convincing portrait of the spirit of a lost, idealistic age. . . . It has the cinematic mastery of scene and dialogue that characterized Leonard's later works' - Hector Tobar, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere are some lines you should never cross...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrouble is in the air at Stanzik Farms, Texas. The workers have gone on strike and tensions are threatening to boil over. As secrets come to a head and migrant workers, cops, foremen, agitators and union bosses collide at the picket line, things start to get very rough indeed. Elmore Leonard's brilliantly orchestrated, never-before-published story \u003ci\u003ePicket Line\u003c\/i\u003e is accompanied here by two more terse tales of ruthless enforcers and tense stand-offs, riffing on the thing that made him great: his extraordinary ear for dialogue, and for creating situations where the stakes could not be higher for the loser.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 112 pages | Published October 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63997105111389,"sku":"9780241755396","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/picket-line-and-other-stories","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}