Out of Sight (novel)

Out of Sight is a 1996crime fiction novel by Elmore Leonard.

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.

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.

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.

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