Blurb

Over-the-hill former counter-culture SDS revolutionaries decide to turn bomb-making—and detonating—from a political statement to a profitable enterprise in the master Elmore Leonard’s electrifying and explosively funny thriller Freaky Deaky. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch calls Leonard, “the world’s greatest cops ‘n’ robbers novelist.” The Seattle Times says, “Leonard is more than just one of the all-time greats of crime fiction. He’s fast becoming an authentic American icon.” No matter where you wish to place the man who created the character of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, lately of TV’s hit series Justified, in the pantheon of mystery and noir detective fiction demigods—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and the like—there is no denying that nobody does it better than the Grand Master Elmore Leonard!

Review

No one rights petty criminals with grand designs and the cops chasing them better than Elmore Leonard. Freaky Deaky follows scammers turned bombers turned blackmailers and the encounters that bring a few differing groups together in the middle of it all. I would consider it very similar to City Primeval, which the last season of Justified was based on.

Freaky Deaky was turned into a movie. I have not seen it. And the trailer makes it very hard to take is serious after reading the book. But I’ll probably still watch it.

I would not consider this Leonard’s best work. But a bad Leonard book is kind of like bad sex or bad pizza. Not that bad. If I was judging it against just his other work, I would give them 3 stars. But considering he is just a different level than most crime fiction novels, 4 of 5 stars.