SOURCE: "When Honor and Justice Were Things To Be Cherished," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 24, 1993, p. 8.

The following is Lochte's laudatory review of Pronto.

Elmore Leonard begins his 31st novel [Pronto] with a Miami bookmaker, Harry Arno, about to tell his girlfriend Joyce his biggest secret. But she already knows it: When he was stationed in Rapallo, Italy, during WWII, he shot a deserter. The joke, and the setup for the novel, is that Harry doesn't realize that he has talked about his "secret" often—whenever he's had too much to drink. And when the FBI, out of perversity, puts him on the spot with Mafia boss "Jimmy Cap" Capotorto, forcing Harry to hop it to his special Italian hideaway, everybody knows where he is.

Maybe not everybody. But Raylan Givens, the U.S. marshal responsible for keeping track of Harry, knows. And so does Tommy...