The Hunted

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Mark Hammer

“Wonderful…razor-sharp.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Excellent….A plot and a chase as good as anything he has ever written.”
—Bergan Record

In Elmore Leonard’s The Hunted, “crime fiction’s greatest living practitioner” (Washington Post) carries the action far from his usual Detroit, Miami, and Los Angeles milieus, all the way to the Middle East. There no lack of excitement and suspense—and the trademark Leonard dialogue—in this superior tale of a fugitive hiding under the radar in Israel, until a well-publicized Good Samaritan act attracts the unwanted attention of well-armed Motown mobsters who are now coming to get him. The author who introduced the world to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (in his novels Pronto and Riding the Rap, before the lawman became the star of the hit TV drama Justified), the Grand Master shows why the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel calls him “the all-time king of the whack job crime novelists,” and goes on to say that “Elmore Leonard tops them all”…including John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Robert B. Parker, and quite possibly every major mystery writer the U.S. has ever produced.

under appreciated

terrific narration. i don’t understand the critics of the narrator. interesting story. slightly confused by the back and forth cat and mouse traveling chase between cities. well drawn vivid characters each made more distinct and alive by the narrator’s pitch perfect dialects and accents.

Mark Hammer is the worst!

I read everything I can from Elmore Leonard. I love his works including this book.
I can not stand listening to Mark Hammer. The first time I herd him was his reading of a Dave Robicheaux book and I took an immediate dislike to his reading. I don't understand why anyone would us him to read their book.

Another Elmore Leonard great

Loved listening to this story. Great story switching between who you think is the main character and who it becomes.

a great Leonard story

this is a classic mid 70s Elmore Leonard with plenty of action and setting and a little bit of sex. this is marred by the narrators inability to do more than different voices. at certain points it made it very difficult to know which character was which. while he's a decent narrator in terms of pacing, when you have this many characters you really need somebody who's a little bit more versatile.

Voice characterization.

Audible may be a good way to listen to stories that may not be that easy to find at the library. I was glad to hear this one. I don’t think I ever read a copy of this one. Elmore Leonard is a favorite author of mine.