That's true, he's pushing seventy. But I've seen him interviewed fairly recently and he still has his marbles. So if he's going to put his name on something, he should write it himself.

He's starting to remind me of James Patterson, the biggest fraud currently "writing" fiction. Unfortunately, he's also one of the wealthiest.

Elmore Leonard put out a quality novel a year for most of his career until he died at almost 88 years old. But then again, he was in a class all by himself.