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It’s gratifying to know that every Elmore Leonard novel will deliver on the anticipated experience. Every Leonard novel promises to create unique minds in its characters. As readers, we get to jump inside those minds and be taken on a ride through that bit of life populated by those people. As a consequence, you never know where you’ll be at the end of the story and seeing that final destination is often a result of duplicity, self-deceit, overconfidence, and any number of other psychoses that happen to invade the thought process of any human anywhere. That is why every book is different.

The Big Bounce was no exception. We had Nancy Hayes, who perhaps demonstrates the limits of cruelty that can be inflicted by a woman in the same way that being a rapist exemplifies it for a man. We had Jack Ryan, who is so self-confident that he never sees that he is always one step away from greatness. And Mr. Majestyk (the original and not the later Leonard incarnation of the same name), who has found that the secret to life is to simply enjoy what comes his way. There are others, but these are the primary movers and shakers.

The story itself had a nice feel to it. It reminded my of Dirty Dancing with its 1960s middle-class cabin motor court feel to it. However, this resort had Chutzpah. And that’s probably the best part of any Leonard novel. On the whole, he is not afraid to take the story to wherever his crazy characters are willing to go.