the Bounty Hunters (1953) (26 page)

Madora came up behind them. He glanced at Flynn after looking down at Deneen, but he said nothing to him. Then to Bowers, I see Soldado survived' him and about two dozen others. Counting his women up in the hills somewhere, you'll have about seventy people all told. Red, how do you propose to get 'em to San Carlos?

I was thinking of talking Santana into helping as far as the border' have cavalry come down to meet us there. Bowers smiled. Hell, Joe, all the fight's out of those Mimbres. The three of us could take them up, for that matter.

You mean the two of us.

Two?

David here's talking about doing some prospecting.

Flynn smiled, but he didn't deny it.

About the Author

ELMORE LEONARD has written more than three dozen books during his highly successful writing career, including the bestsellers Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool, Get Shorty, and Rum Punch. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight. He is the recipient of the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife, Christine, in Bloomfield Village, Michigan.

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The Bounty Hunters

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and Praise for the Western Fiction of Elmore Leonard

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LEONARD WAS A WRITER OF SUPERIOR WESTERNS BEFORE HE TURNED TO CRIME, BUT ALL THE ELEMENTS OF HIS DETROIT, MIAMI, AND ATLANTIC CITY NOVELS ARE HERE: OBLIQUE DIALOGUE, CLOSELY OBSERVED BEHAVIOR, A CERTAIN SUNNY CYNICISM, A MELANCHOLY COURAGE.

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Books by Elmore Leonard

Tishomingo Blues

Pagan Babies

Be Cool

The Tonto Woman & Other Western Stories

Cuba Libre

Out of Sight

Riding the Rap

Pronto

Rum Punch

Maximum Bob

Get Shorty

Killshot

Freaky Deaky

Touch

Bandits

Glitz

LaBrava

Stick

Cat Chaser

Split Images

City Primeval

Gold Coast

Gunsights

The Switch

The Hunted

Unknown Man No. 89

Swag

Fifty-two Pickup

Mr. Majestyk

Forty Lashes Less One

Valdez Is Coming

The Moonshine War

The Big Bounce

Hombre

Last Stand at Saber River

Escape from Five Shadows

The Law at Randado

The Bounty Hunters

A Coyote's in the House

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE BOUNTY HUNTERS. Copyright -! 1953 by Elmore Leonard, Inc.; copyright renewed -! 1979 by Elmore Leonard, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition -! SEPTEMBER 2004 ISBN: 9780061836794

First HarperTorch paperback printing: April 2002

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