Road Dogs

I've been an Elmore Leonard fan for a while, but I waited to read Road Dogs (2009) after learning that there was a character from his earlier novel La Brava (the fact that there was also a character from Out of Sight-Jack Foley didn't bother me since the film version is one of my favorite films). I decided to read La Brava first, and found out that Cundo Rey, the Cuban go go dancer from LaBrava survived the three shots to his chest in the previous novel. Leonard creates great characters, interesting dialogue, and unpredictable plots and this is yet another example of these strengths.