SOURCE: "Mr. Wrong," in New York Times, September 8, 1996.

In the following review, Lombreglia faults Out of Sight as unrealistic.

The oldest unsolved mystery on the books, human love, is the case to crack in Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard's new novel, in which the cop is a lady with a gift for meeting Mr. Wrong and the robber is a guy who just might have been, in a different life, Mr. Right. It begins auspiciously with a prison break, a group of convicts tunneling out of the medium-security Florida pen where Jack Foley, a career bank robber, is doing time after his third major fall.

On first glance, Foley seems to be the classic crime-fiction hard guy, "a celebrity hard-timer" who gives talks in prison on how to stay alive. "If you saw it coming, hit first with something heavy. Foley's choice, a foot or so of lead...