Rum Punch

Rum Punch is a 1992 novel written by Elmore Leonard. The novel was adapted into the film Jackie Brown (1997) by director Quentin Tarantino, although the movie changed the setting to Los Angeles, gave the main character a different surname, and changed her race from white to mixed race.[1]

For the alcoholic mixed drink, see Punch (drink).
Rum Punch
First edition
AuthorElmore Leonard
CountryUS
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDelacorte Press
Publication date
1992
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages302
ISBN0-385-30143-X
OCLC24671033
813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3562.E55 R8 1992

The characters Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara first appeared in Leonard's novel, The Switch, which itself has also been adapted as a film, Life of Crime, first shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, with Robbie played by Mos Def and Gara portrayed by John Hawkes.

Plot summary

Set in the South Florida cities of West Palm Beach and Miami, Rum Punch follows Jackie Burke, a forty-four-year-old stewardess for a bottom-rung airline, who has been smuggling illegal cash into the U.S. from Jamaica for small-time gunrunner and aspiring crime boss Ordell Robbie. When U.S. agents arrest Jackie after catching her smuggling this "dirty money", they use the threat of prison and job loss to pressure her into acting as bait in their plan to catch Ordell. Upon learning of this, Ordell pressures Jackie into intentionally misleading and stalling the police long enough for her to smuggle the remainder of his "retirement score" money into the U.S. Hopelessly caught between two no-win scenarios, both dooming her to lifelong poverty as she's too old to start over again, a desperate Jackie devises a secret, risky plan of her own to double-cross Ordell and the police, save herself, and secure her future. To execute this plan, Jackie must enlist the help of Max Cherry—the same bail bondsman Ordell hired to get Jackie out of jail.

References
  1. "Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard - The Quentin Tarantino Archives". Tarantino.info. 2008-12-22. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
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