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Title: Home From Home
Review: As with the great majority of Leonard's books, certain qualities can be taken as a given. The dialogue is vibrant and snappy, and the characters and plotline feed off each other - as is true with all great thriller writers - proving that the only things needed to power a story are the failings, weaknesses, vanities, and reluctant ethics of the characters themselves.The central issue here is the dance between Vincent Mora (a Miami based police officer, convalescing after being shot on duty) and Teddy Magyk (a devious degenerate who Mora helped put away). With Puerto Rico as the expertly sketched backdrop, and all the secondary characters drawn with economic verve, if this novel falls just shy of the writer's best work it's because of those standards he's set for himself, and shouldn't be any barrier to enjoying this vivid work.
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