{"product_id":"9780241755396","title":"Picket Line and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics - Crime \u0026 Espionage)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree stories - the never-before-published 'Picket Line', along with 'Chick Killer' and 'Ice Man' - showing Elmore Leonard at his most terse and thrilling \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Like all of Leonard's books, Picket Line is a taut and engaging tale. Crime dramas made Leonard famous, but this is a social-justice story. . . . Leonard renders their adventures and their thoughts in spare, elegant, Hemingway-inspired prose. . . . Picket Line builds a convincing portrait of the spirit of a lost, idealistic age. . . . It has the cinematic mastery of scene and dialogue that characterized Leonard's later works' - Héctor Tobar, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are some lines you should never cross...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTrouble 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48522642915563,"sku":"EB_LI0700_B17-02_SIMS","price":20.66,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780241755396-1.jpg?v=1781613810","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9780241755396","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}