Three early novels--"Swag," "Mr. Majestyk," and "The Hunted"--include tales of adventure, suspense, and mystery.Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.