The Switch

by Elmore Leonard

Valdez Is Coming

  Forty Lashes Less One

  Mr. Majestyk

  52 Pickup

  Swag

  Unknown Man #89

  The Hunted

  The Switch

  Gunsights

  Gold Coast

  City Primeval

  Split Images

  Cat Chaster

  Stick

  LaBrava

  Glitz

  Bandits

  Touch

  Freaky Deaky

  Killshot

  Get Shorty

  Maximum Bob

  Rum Punch

  Pronto

  Riding the Rap

  Out of Sight

  Cuba Libre

  The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories

  Be Cool

  Pagan Babies

  Tishomingo Blues

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the 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 SWITCH. Copyright © 1978 by Elmore Leonard. 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 © NOVEMBER 2002 ISBN: 9780061829963

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