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. Title: The Hunted Publisher: New York : Dell, 1977 Edition: First Edition Format: Paperback Original Pages: 251 pages. He also gives his … The Hunted - Kindle edition by Elmore Leonard. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Hunted. The Hunted is unusual in that you don't really know who the main character is until the very end. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The Hunted is one of the early non-western novels by Elmore Leonard but it has all the right moves of an Elmore Leonard novel. Elmore Leonard has written more than forty books during his highly successful writing career, including the bestsellers Road Dogs, Up in Honey's Room, The Hot Kid, Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, and the critically acclaimed collection of short stories When the Women Come Out to Dance.Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty, Out of Sight, and Be Cool. Quintessential Elmore Leonard, Split Images stars Palm Beach playboy Robbie Daniels. My favorite passage is the thoughts going through one characters mind as he is dying. Elmore Leonard is the best crime fiction writer I have read. Return to Elmore Leonard Home Page. He's the kind of guy who gets away with everything - even murder - until a vacationing Motown cop, Bryan Hurd, starts asking questions. Leonard writes character driven novels about ordinary people with a variety of quirky behaviors and habits which makes them interesting. Novels The Hunted.