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  • Published: 9 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241755426
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $22.99

The Switch





A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore Leonard

Mickey is bored and angry with her life as a housewife in suburban Detroit, trapped with her dreary, golf-obsessed husband. Then she is kidnapped by a deeply unimpressive criminal gang who want to trade her for a huge ransom from her—as it turns out—crooked husband. But what if she doesn’t really mind being kidnapped?

  • Published: 9 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241755426
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $22.99

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Praise for The Switch

PRAISE FOR ELMORE LEONARD

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The crime writer’s crime writer, King of all he surveys

Ian Rankin

Cool talk, hot action … it’s impossible not to love Elmore Leonard

LA Times

The hottest thriller writer in the US

TIME

The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever

The New York Times Book Review

Leonard is a genius

The New York Times

Leonard provides the fizziest and cleverest dialogue in crime fiction. A total delight

The Times

He’s set the standard against which all other crime novels are measured

The New York Times

The man other crime writers call the Boss

The Daily Telegraph

The crime laureate

The Independent

The coolest, hottest writer in America

Chicago Tribune

The greatest crime writer who ever lived

Dennis Lehane

Not just a good storyteller, but also an important novelist

Philip Kerr

Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today

The New York Times
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