The Big Bounce Av Elmore Leonard

<p><b>The beguiling story of a man, a woman and a nasty crime, from ''the hottest thriller writer in the US'' [Time].</b><br><br>"But the whole deal, staying and going along with her idea, both, depended really on how much nerve he had. Which she would have to find out..."<br><br>Nancy Hayes has plenty of feminine charm - and the instincts of a shark. <br>Jack Ryan is handy with his fists, and has all the cunning of an ex-con. <br>Now, in a Michigan resort town, a rich man wants Jack gone and Nancy for himself.<br><br>For Jack, the choice is clear: Nancy''s promises of pleasure, her crazy, thrill-seeking schemes of breaking into homes, shooting guns and maybe stealing a whole lot of money is driving him mad. <br><br>But there is one thing Jack doesn''t know yet. Nancy is planning the deadliest thrill of all...</p>