Name: Riding the Rap
ISBN: 9780060082185

Elmore Leonard

When retired Miami bookie Harry Arno is kidnapped by three bungling, but deadly thugs, it is up to U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens to track him down--but the trio has devised a method of having Arno's own ransom paid. Reprint.

Riding the Rap

Dana Kraft

I enjoyed this more than Pronto. Raylan's character is a bit more developed (maybe that's just in my mind).

John Philpin

Not his best - but definitely - as always a great read.

Now that mom’s gravy train has derailed, gambling, debt-ridden Palm Beach playboy Warren “Chip” Ganz has decided to take somebody rich hostage—with the help of a Bahamian ex-con, a psycho gardener/enforcer, and the beautiful, if underfed, psychic Reverend Dawn. The trouble is, they chose bookmaker Harry Arno as their victim, and Harry can scam with the best. The big trouble is, ace manhunter U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is sleeping with Harry’s ex–exotic dancer ex-girlfriend, and Joyce wants Harry found. And since nearly everyone has guns, locating and springing the captive bookie almost certainly can’t happen without some measure of lethal difficulty.