Bandits

By Elmore Leonard

Subjects: City and town life in fiction, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990, Crime, fiction, Louisiana, fiction, Brigands and robbers in fiction, Brigands and robbers, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Iran-Contra Affair (1985-1990) fast (OCoLC)fst00978771, New orleans (la.), fiction, City and town life, Counterrevolutionaries, Literature and fiction, mystery and suspense, Detective and mystery stories

Description: Working at his brother-in-law’s New Orleans funeral home isn’t reformed jewel thief Jack Delaney’s idea of excitement—until he’s dispatched to a leper’s hospital to pick up a corpse that turns out to be very much alive … and under the care of a beautiful, radical ex-nun in designer jeans. The “deceased” is the one-time squeeze of a Nicaraguan colonel who’s ordered her dead for trying to “infect” him, and Sister Lucy’s looking to spirit the young woman away from his guns and goons. Plus Lucy’s getting ideas about spiriting away some of the colonel’s millions as well—and someone with Jack Delaney’s talents could come in very handy indeed.