The Switch

Published: 9 September 2025
ISBN: 9780241755426
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
RRP: $26.00

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The Switch

Elmore Leonard

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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: $26.00

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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