Hombre - Leonard Elmore

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Résumé :
John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him. That is, until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert. He can't ride with them, but they must walk with him or die... Hombre was made into the classic Western starring Paul Newman. Crackling with Leonard's trademark dialogue, and set against a beautifully evoked landscape, it captures the wild and glorious spirit of the American West.

Biographie:
Elmore Leonard was born in 1925 in New Orleans. He lived in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Memphis before his family settled in Detroit in 1935. He served in the US Navy during the Second World War and afterwards studied English literature at the University of Detroit, graduating in 1950. From 1949 to 1961 he worked as a copywriter in various advertising agencies and, apart from a few book reviews, he has been writing only novels and screenplays since 1967. Many of his novels have been filmed, notably Get Shorty, Rum Punch (as the movie Jackie Brown), Touch and Out of Sight. La Brava won the 1983 Edgar Allan Poe Award for the best mystery novel and in 1992 Elmore Leonard was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. He is a member of the Authors' Guild, the Writers' Guild of America, Western Writers of America and Mystery Writers of America. Visit his website at www.elmoreleonard.com.