<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Skirt-chasing, orchid-raising Florida Judge "Maximum" Bob Gibbs has made a career of oversentencing convicted felons. He's thrown the book at so many that it's beginning to look like one of them may throw it back at him. It starts when someone puts a live alligator in the bigoted, red-necked jurist's backyard. When shots are fired into his house, it becomes clear that the someone out to get him isn't going to stop at a second try. (August)<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A character so outrageous he could only have come from the ingenious imagination of Elmore Leonard, lewd, lecherous, law-bending Florida jurist Judge Robert "Maximum Bob" Gibbs has been judged guilty by a grudge-bearing malefactor and sentenced to death--by alligator, if necessary. <em>Maximum Bob </em>is a delightfully dark classic thriller from "the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever" (<em>New York Times Book Review</em>), and any reader who loved getting gleefully lost in criminal mayhem of <em>Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight, The Hot Kid, </em>or any number of the inimitable Leonard's numerous crime fiction masterworks will get maximum enjoyment out of this one.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Hard-ass Palm Beach County judge Bob Isom Gibbs enjoys sending even petty offenders away to do hard time--which has made the list of miscreants who want him dead longer than a fully grown Florida gator's tail. And a good number of his ill-wishers are probation officer Kathy Baker's clients, including young Dale Crowe and his psycho uncle Elvin. Suddenly Kathy's got an even more daunting task than keeping BIG's horny hands off her: keeping Maximum Bob alive. Because Gibbs's many enemies seem to be willing to go to any lengths--be it death by amphibian or some more tried-and-true method--to permanently end the career of an oversexed, racist jurist who's more interested in scoring than saving his own red neck.</p>