SOURCE: "A Love Story (With True Grit)," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 25, 1996, p. 3.

In the following review, McBain provides a primarily favorable assessment of Out of Sight.

The irony of it is surely not wasted on Elmore Leonard, himself a master of irony.

After years of indifferent Hollywood movies based on his novels, after decades of having his own screenplays abused, misused or merely trashed, Leonard writes a payback novel sending up Tinseltown's denizens and guess what happens? It becomes a hit movie! So now the jacket of his new book blatantly advertises "a novel by the author of Get Shorty." This after more than 30 other novels, almost all of which were far superior to Get Shorty. It is to laugh.

Having at last been "discovered" by the moon pitchers, Leonard perversely survives the temptation to go Hollywood by delivering a new novel that is eminently...