PICKET LINE AND OTHER STORIES

Three stories the never before published Picket Line along with Chick Killer and Ice Man showing Elmore Leonard at his most terse and thrilling There are some lines you should never cross Trouble 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 Picket Line 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