![]() ![]() Placing cowboys and American Indians in modern cities such as Miami and Detroit is only one of the many types of contrast Leonard employs to produce effects. Another type of displaced Western character is Armand Degas in Killshot, a half-breed American Indian turned Mafia hit man. 89, Clement Mansell in City Primeval, Roland Crowe in Gold Coast, and Richard Nobles in LaBrava. Examples of these “redneck monsters” are Raymond Gidre in Unknown Man No. ![]() Furthermore, when he switched to crime fiction, he brought some of his hair-trigger, saloon-wrecking cowboy villains into urban settings with startling effects. This is essentially the method he has employed throughout his writing career. Knowing nothing about the West, he learned to depend on research that he could embellish with his vivid imagination. Elmore Leonard’s (Octo– August 20, 2013) early short stories and novels were conventional in terms of plot and characterization however, writing Westerns was good training. ![]()
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