Oh I just realized what this is: the TV series based on one of Elmore’s characters, the marshal, Raylan Givens, who says to his prisoner in the marshal’s car who is giving him a hard time:
“I’m not your problem.”
Classic.
I never wanted to watch this show, so afraid it would ruin the character for me, as happens so much. A close friend of mine was a devoted watcher.
There’s another great character who broke out of prison, and is so different from other men that everyone automatically looks at him when he walks into a club. Can’t think of his name right now. They made a movie out of that one too. Never, ever want to watch it.
Are you thinking of the famous bank robber, Jack Foley? Because the movie they made about him drawn from the novel, Out of Sight, is another excellent, true-to-Leonard movie. (Most Hollywood attempts at Leonard are gawd-awful.)