Tom Lynch

The crime novelist returns to the scene with another saga of cops, drugs, and cash in "Mr. Paradise," his first book in a long while that abandons Florida and uses Detroit as its predominant setting. The master of putting police lingo to the page creates a few more memorable characters in the thug Anthony Paradiso and the sleazeball lawyer Avern Cohn, although they're not quite as charming as "Get Shorty"'s Chili Palmer or "Rum Punch"'s Jackie Brown. Leonard, 78-years-old with over forty years of fiction behind him, is certainly worth seeing in person, even if his prose is all thrills and popcorn.

Elmore Leonard reads from "Mr. Paradise" on January 23, 7:30pm, at Barbara's Bookstore, 1350 North Wells, (312)642-5044.

(2004-01-20)

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