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Out Of Sight

The Run Down.

Jack Foley was busting out of Florida's Glades Prison when he ran head-on into Karen Sisco with a shotgun. Suddenly the world-class gentleman felon was sharing a cramped car trunk with a disarmed federal marshal—whose Chanel suit cost more than the take from Foley's last bank job—and the chemistry was working overtime. Here's a lady Jack could fall for in a big way, if she weren't a dedicated representative of the law that he breaks for a living. And as soon as she escapes, he's already missing her. But there are some seriously bad men and a major score waiting for Jack in Motown. And there's a good chance that when his path crosses Karen's again, she's going to be there for business, not pleasure.

Published: 1996

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Genre: Crime

Adaptation: Film (Out of Sight)

Characters: Ray Nicolette , Jack Foley

Breathtaking . . . Elmore Leonard may be the last hope for the written word.

— New York Observer

Jack Foley

Foley didn’t answer because there was no way to explain what he felt, that these were the final scenes of his life playing out, that pretty soon it would be over and he was resigned to it happening. Here, not against the fence in some penitentiary. It was like if Clyde Barrow, driving along that county road in ’34, knew he was going to run into all those Texas Rangers and there was nothing he could do about it.

Karen Sisco

Karen walked out to the sitting room with a sense of expectations. Foley was gone, but maybe he’d left a note. She looked around, at the desk, the coffee table. The newspaper photo he’d laid there was gone. But something wrapped in a napkin was lying by the half-empty bottle and the ice bucket. She picked it up and knew what it was as she unfolded the napkin. Her Sig Sauer .38

Out of Sight

Adapted for film in 1998",
Starring George Clooney — Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Screenplay by Scott Frank