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Originally published 1996 Adaptations Out of Sight (1998) | 3.9/5 Goodreads | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Fiction, Mystery, Crime Fiction Similar El Leonard books, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Out of Sight is a 1996 crime fiction novel by Elmore Leonard.
Contents
Plot
Jack Foley, a "gentleman bank robber" arranges a break-out from a Florida jail. The plan is interrupted by shotgun toting Federal Marshal Karen Sisco. The pair end up in the trunk of the getaway car, where find they have a mutual interest: classic Hollywood movies.
Critical response
In a review of the novel Crime writer Ed McBain points out the irony of Out of Sight being marketed as "by the author of Get Shorty" when that novel was a "payback" for previous poor adaptions of Leonard's other novels as movies.
Movie adaptation
The novel was adapted to a 1998 movie of the same name directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney as Foley and Jennifer Lopez as Sisco.
Foley's character returned in Leonard's 2009 novel, Road Dogs.