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Pagan Babies [158-066-4.1]

By: Elmore Leonard

Category: Fiction Crime

SYNOPSIS

Nobody writes novels like Elmore Leonard, with his crackling dialogue,
breathless pacing, and hilarious hard-luck, unfailingly human
characters. In his sizzling new novel, the New York Times best selling
author crosses continents to tell an adrenaline-charged story of crime
and retribution--where double crosses become triple crosses, revenge is
where you find it, and absolution is just around the corner.

Father Terry Dunn hears a lot of strange confessions. After all, he's
the only priest for miles in the lingering aftermath of the worst
massacre Rwanda has ever seen. And Fr. Terry, who has forty- seven
bodies in his church that need burying, has just heard one confession
too many. After exacting from them a chilling penance, Fr. Terry has to
get out of Africa--pronto.

Now Terry is coming home to Detroit, where a five-year-old tax-fraud
indictment is hanging over him. Is Terry Dunn really a priest? He
certainly doesn't act like one. A fugitive felon on two continents,
Terry is being pursued by a cigarette-smuggling cohort, who rolled over
on Terry to save jail time-yet still demands his share of the money. But
Debbie Dewey has other plans for Terry. She's just been sprung from a
three-year fall at Saw- grass Correctional for aggravated assault...and
is now trying to make it as a stand-up comic. Debbie and Terry hit it
off beautifully. They have the same sense of humor and similar goals:
Both of them want to raise a whole lot of cash. Terry, for the children
of Rwanda; Debbie, to score off a guy who owes her sixty-seven thousand
dollars. It's Debbie who keeps prying, until she learns the bizarre
truth about Terry; Debbie who sells him on going in together for a much
bigger payoff than either could manage alone. That is unless the priest
is working a con of his own.



With an unforgettable cast of oddballs and
schemers--including a mob boss on trial, an
unlikely assassin called Mutt, an ex-con con artist
who dreams of doing stand-up, and a priest who
may not be a priest-- Pagan Babies is Elmore
Leonard at his double-dealing best. In the hands
of this master, the stakes are always life and
death. Crime fiction doesn't get any better.

ELMORE LEONARD is the author of thirty-six