Bandits

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Frank Muller

“Almost unbearable suspense. Leonard has produced another winner.”
—People

A wild ride with “the coolest, hottest writer in America” (Chicago Tribune), Bandits has everything Elmore Leonard fans love: non-stop thrills, unexpected twists and turns, unforgettable characters, and the most razor-sharp dialogue being rapidly exchanged anywhere in the crime fiction genre. Leonard stands tall among the all-time greats (John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain) and towers far above most of the writers currently plying the noir fiction trade. The master who created U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, currently of the hit TV series Justified, is at the top of his game, ensnaring readers in an ingenious plot hatched by a former jewel thief and a radical ex-nun to scam millions from a sadistic Nicaraguan colonel. In fact, the Philadelphia Inquirer says Bandits “may well be his best.” Read it and decide for yourself.

The Reader

The story gritty and fun. The characters, Frank Mueller excellent. The details were very believable.

Great writing in service of a lackluster plot.

This is the first Elmore Leonard book I've experienced, and from what I understand it's not one of his better efforts. The story begins full of promise of nuns, lepers, heists, and Sandinistas versus Contras, but fizzles out around the last third and slouches into a near anticlimax. However, the dialogue, and its delivery by Muller, is almost worth the price of admission alone. Avoid if you're not the type to forgive a weak plot if the writing telling it is high quality.

Excellent Elmore Leonard

Frank Muller is my favorite narrator for Elmore Leonard books. I've read many and this one is up there with Tishomingo Blues and Rum Punch. His classic use of "good" bad guys and "bad" bad guys is in full throat in Bandits. If you're already a fan, this won't disappoint. If you're not already a fan you will be!

A Perfect Leonard Audiobook

What to say? Great story, characters are hilarious, the story keeps us guessing and enraptured, and Muller delivers with perfect pitch and punctuation.

Leonard and Muller: Score One

never thought I'd become a fan of a narrator/performer, bit I have. Frank Miller is a top pro. I'm glad I can search for his work, which I now do.
And Elmore Leonard? Can't say enough about him, but he seems to have been born to tell stories.