Rum Punch

From America's top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino's hit film JACKIE BROWNJackie, a flight attendant with a serious side hustle, is about to get grounded... She’s just got busted smuggling large amounts of hot money on the Caribbean-Florida run, and now the Feds are pressuring her to turn informant – but Ordell Robbie, the highly dysfunctional arms-dealer she works for, is not getting any more functional. With the help of disillusioned bail bondsman Max Cherry, could she outsmart her pursuers and walk away from the whole wreckage, happy and rich in the process? In a high-stakes game of risk, whose rum has the hardest punch?

From America''s top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino''s hit film JACKIE BROWN

Jackie, a flight attendant with a serious side hustle, is about to get grounded...

She’s just got busted smuggling large amounts of hot money on the Caribbean-Florida run, and now the Feds are pressuring her to turn informant – but Ordell Robbie, the highly dysfunctional arms-dealer she works for, is not getting any more functional. With the help of disillusioned bail bondsman Max Cherry, could she outsmart her pursuers and walk away from the whole wreckage, happy and rich in the process? In a high-stakes game of risk, whose rum has the hardest punch?

• | Author: Elmore Leonard
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jun 05, 2025
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780241755402
• | ISBN-10: 0241755409