'This is the best of a magnificent writer's magnificent books.'--Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried The first major release in nearly a decade from the late, best-selling Elmore Leonard--'the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever ' (New York Times Book Review): Picket Line is the never-before-published, prescient story of a budding agricultural strike in Texas, the racial tension brewing in the fields, and what happens when brutality from 'the man' goes unchecked. 'If a man comes out of the field and goes on the picket line, even for one day, he'll never be the same...' Chino and Paco Rojas seem well-mannered, at least for Chicanos, to the white cops that pull them over for littering on the long drive from California to Trinity, Texas. So well-mannered, in fact, that Captain Frank McKellan lets them off with a warning and recommends them a job at Stanzik Farms, the largest independent melon grower in the area. But Chino and Paco didn't drive all this way for