Books like Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #2 by Elmore Leonard

In a sizzling Florida smuggling ring, Ordell "Whitebread" Robbie sells illicit weapons while Jackie Burke, a flight‑attendant courier, must dodge federal crackdowns and decide whether to stay loyal or walk away.

Mob-connected loanshark Chili Palmer leaves Miami for Hollywood, chasing a deadbeat client and an opportunity to make a killer movie, only to find the glitter‑filled film world is as treacherous as any mob killing.

In New Orleans, ex‑thief Jack Delaney is hired to collect a corpse that turns out alive, leading him into a plot involving a former nun, a Nicaraguan colonel, and a scheme to steal illicit money.

Ken Kesey uncovers the 1911 Pendleton Round‑Up, detailing the legendary "last go round" among three trailblazing buckeroos and the bustling Western town that hosted the first World Championship Broncbusting title.

A collection of Louis L’Amour’s Western short stories, featuring rugged trail drivers, frontier settlers, and a mysterious preacher, blending gritty realism, suspense, and occasional humor.

Leonard's famous "Tropical Western" delivers a smuggler, a sugar baron, and one smart, pistol-hot lady to Havana during the Spanish-American War.War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898 - right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine - may not be the most intelligent thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler's sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad. But he's not dying until he gets the money he's owed from a two-timing American sugar baron. And there's one smart, pistol-hot lady at the rich man's side who could help Ben get everything he's got rightfully coming... even when the whole damn island's going straight to hell.

Two ex‑convicts, Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara, plan a high‑stakes kidnapping of a wealthy developer’s wife in Detroit, but their scheme goes awry when the husband resists, forcing a desperate Plan B with a vengeful housewife.

Pay Dirt is a Western mystery by Erle Stanley Gardner that follows desert wanderer Bob Zane as he navigates intrigue and survival in a gold‑mining frontier town.

When a small-time Detroit thief, Ernest Stickley Jr., is caught by used‑car dealer Frank Ryan, he is offered a chance to join Ryan’s gun‑laden schemes. Stickley must decide how far to bend the rules to survive the underworld.

Ex-secret service agent turned photographer Joe LaBrava becomes embroiled in a Miami crisis center drama when he meets a former movie star under threat, forcing him to step into the role of hero.

A New England lady elopes with a cowboy to Montana, confronting the rugged challenges of frontier life.

Jimmy Christmas arrives in Trampas to help Susan Gates after her uncle fails to answer a request for aid, yet she doubts his youth and inexperience will limit his ability to resolve the town’s troubles.

A definitive collection of Elmore Leonard’s thirty Western short stories, from his first published tale, “The Trail of the Apache,” to five decades of gritty narratives set in 1880s Arizona and beyond.

Susan Sontag’s expansive novel, *In America*, follows a woman's quest for self‑transformation amid the landscape of frontier life, theater, and idealism, weaving together stories and the power of storytelling itself.

In downtown Detroit, a retired lawyer’s household turns deadly when a night of heavy drinking and mistaken identities leaves two bodies, two hit men, and a treasure in a safe‑deposit box, prompting detective Frank Delsa to unravel a labyrinth of crime.