All the way Southron; New American fiction.(New fiction from Elmore Leonard)
Economist (US), The, February, 2002
BRITISH TELECOM built a hugely successful advertising campaign around the catchphrase, "It's good to talk." Maybe BT's copywriters had been reading Elmore Leonard. "Tishomingo Blues" is Mr Leonard's 37th novel and it is as full of pitch-perfect patter, bare-knuckle verbal sparring and whiplash one-liners as anything he has written.
Dennis Lenahan is an itinerant high-dive artist who makes a perilous living by leaping off an 80-foot ladder into a shallow tub of water. He has taken a job at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino, an Indian-themed hotel in Tunica County, Mississippi, the rural South's answer to Las Vegas. Also staying at the hotel is Robert Taylor, a hip Detroit gangster with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Delta blues. Robert has come down south on an...
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