Books like Gunsights by Elmore Leonard

A Pulitzer‑winning historical novel that dramatizes the four‑day Battle of Gettysburg from the viewpoints of Union and Confederate leaders.

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.

Two Texas Rangers, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, confront Indian raids, bandit threats, and personal entanglements with women while navigating life on the frontier.

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.

A Detroit detective pursues a cunning killer who keeps slipping through the law.

A wealthy New Jersey gardener's daughter is drawn into a series of mysterious deaths.

Former Confederate soldier Paul Cable returns to Arizona to reclaim his stand, but his land is claimed by Union brothers—a hunt for honor and justice amid lingering Civil War tensions.

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.

In 1930s Tulsa, Deputy US Marshal Carl Webster hunts bank‑robber Jack Belmont, a young outlaw determined to become a public enemy.

Alan Le May’s Western classic, adapted into a John Huston film, explores a family's turmoil when an old foe sparks a destructive rumor across the frontier.

Elmore Leonard’s fast‑paced Western follows bounty hunters Dave Flynn and his young lieutenant as they track an Apache renegade through the dangerous borderlands of Mexico and Arizona, where alliances are deadly.

Al Rosen, hiding in Israel, becomes a hero after rescuing elderly tourists from a hotel fire, setting off a chain of events that entwines him with the underworld.

A tense showdown in a small town erupts when a humiliated fugitive seeks justice, forcing an unlikely part‑time constable to confront a cycle of violence and retribution.

Smoke Jensen, armed only with a Navy Colt and the guidance of an old mountain man, seeks vengeance in the rugged Colorado Rockies, mastering survival and the harsh truths of the wild.