 Louis and Ordell first appeared in the Elmore Leonard (qv) novel  The Switch. At age 15 Quentin Tarantino (qv) was arrested for  shoplifting this book, his one brush with "real" crime. In The  Switch, Louis and Ordell kidnap a millionaires wife only to  discover he doesnt want her back, a plot that was used in  _Ruthless People (1986)_ (qv). In the novels sequel, Rum Punch,  Louis and Ordell complain that the movie producers stole their idea  (without mentioning the movie by name).