The book focuses, primarily, on four remarkable soldiers and the heroics they achieved in saving the world from certain doom. Consisting of short biographies

Elmore Leonard (11 October, 1925 – 20 August, 2013) was an American writer and screenwriter who specialized in thrillers and crime fiction.

The pub­lisher is giv­ing away one copy of this book –to enter fill out the Raf­fle­copt­ter form at the end of the post. In the hard-edged tradition of Hubert Selby Jr., Daniel Woodrell, and Donald Ray Pollock, and with the fresh, complex humanity of Breaking Bad and Reservoir Dogs, a blistering debut collection that unsparingly confronts the extreme, brutal parts of the human heart. A man runs away from his grave and into a maelstrom of bullets and fire. A Hollywood fixer finds love over the corpse of a dead celebrity. A morbidly obese woman imagines a new life with the jewel thief who is scheming to rob the store where she works. A man earns the name “Mad Dog” and lives to regret it. Denizens of the shadows who live outside the law—from the desolate meth labs of the Ozark Mountains to the dog-fighting rings of Detroit to the lavish Los Angeles mansions of the rich and famous—the characters in Love and Other Wounds all thirst for something seemingly just beyond their reach. Some are on the run, pursued by the law or propelled relentlessly forward by a dangerous past that is disturbingly close. Others are searching for a semblance…

The characters in the story are realistic and well written. The personalities involved are entertaining and the storyline is intriguing. There are several main characters but the author does a fine job flowing from one to the other.

The author managed to captures several aspects of Israeli society, the Russian immigrant, a soldier, politician, religious Jew, an Arab bird-lover and more. The point of view constantly changes in the story which gives the narrative it’s on dynamic and takes on a life of its own.

American crime novelist Elmore Leonard (11 October, 1925 – 20 August, 2013) has been recently lost to the literary world. While his earlier novels were westerns, Mr. Leonard specialized in crime fiction putting cops and crooks in bizarre situations to get themselves out of. Books by Elmore Leonard While working at an advertising agency in Detroit during the 1950s, Mr. Leonard started writing western fiction and sold more than 30 short stories to magazines. Mr. Leonard’s nickname was “Dutch” after a major league journeyman pitcher named Emil “Dutch” Leonard. Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quite on the Western Front was a huge inspiration for Mr. Leonard. Mr. Leonard served 3 years in the U.S. Navy. Elmore Leonard never owned a computer. While writing City Primeval, Leonard spent a lot of time with Detroit homicide detectives. For years and years Mr. Leonard maintained a disciplined writing schedule starting at 09:30 and ending at 18:00. When he started writing, Elmore Leonard could produce a page an hour, later on he slowed down to four pages a day. He was once told by a literary agent not to give up his day job. Newsweek labeled the author as the “Dickens of Detroit”. Books by…

Author W.K. Berger has published his book “The Purples” (Book Review) independently even though he is an established and published author

Joe is not a perfect narrator and after finishing the book I finally saw what the author was trying to convey, a hard man making a hard living