Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. A stint as a security man in a Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend phoning from Tokyo, says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. And there is.

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Elmore Leonard first made his name as a writer of western stories, and this collection brings them together for the first time. They date back to 1951, and include "3:10 to Yuma" which was made into a classic film.

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