Any other examples of this in Elmore’s work?

By Joe McKinney,
Every once in a while, Elmore Leonard steps back from the screwball crime stories that made him famous and gives us a book with a conscience. These are books that tackle crimes against humanity. They take outrages such as the genocidal war in Rwanda, the terrors of guerrilla warfare at the hands of the Nicaraguan Contras, and the embarrassment of U.S. political support for the death squads of the Dominican Republic back in the 1960s, and put a human face on them. We meet characters we like, anti heroes we can’t help but root for, and they show us the horror of war in a way that newspaper headlines just can’t equal.

One of Cal Maguire’s co-workers at Seascape takes up the dolphins’ cause against the tuna companies in a single paragraph in Gold Coast. 

Not much of an example, but hey, it’s something.  ;-D

If it comes down to that Newton Hoon avenges - gives his own life avenging - the brutal savage murder of Rose the dog by Eugene the Fish. (I think I’ve got it straight. Rose had been Junebug’s dog, right? Don’t know if Newton was a member of the ASPCA, though.)