SOURCE: "She Keeps a Pistol, Leg Irons, Handcuffs and a Shotgun. Now THAT'S Girl Power," in Observer, April 27, 1997, p. 16.

In the following review, Fiennes offers a mixed assessment of Out of Sight.

Forty-eight-year-old Jack Foley is in prison for robbing more banks 'than anyone in the computer', has an ex-wife in Miami working as an assistant to a magician called Emil the Amazing, and remains supernaturally attractive to beautiful young women of far greater prospects than he. Foley is, in other words, an Elmore Leonard hero: another low-grade Florida criminal, hard-boiled but soft-centred, with the familiar Leonard pathology of 'wanting to be a good guy' and the familiar Leonard cool of a con who breaks out of prison just in time to watch the Super Bowl. Out of Sight is Leonard's thirty-third novel, and it's business as usual.

Foley is picked up outside the prison walls by his...