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Page Count: 304
Printing Date: May 08, 2007
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Release Date: May 08, 2007
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The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday.
Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know that Walter is a member of a spy ring that sends U.S. war production data to Germany and gives shelter to escaped German prisoners of war. But she's tired of telling him jokes he doesn't understand - it's time to get a divorce.
Along comes Carl Webster, the hot kid of the Marshals Service. He's looking for Jurgen Schrenk, a former Afrika Korps officer who escaped from a POW camp in Oklahoma. Carl's pretty sure Walter's involved with keeping Schrenk hidden, so Carl gets to know Honey, hoping she'll take him to Walter. Carl then meets Vera Mezwa, the nifty Ukrainian head of the spy ring who's better looking than Mata Hari, and her tricky lover Bohdan with the Buster Brown haircut and a sly way of killing.
Honey's a free spirit; she likes the hot kid marshal and doesn't much care that he's married. But all Carl wants is to get Jurgen Schrenk without getting shot. And then there's Otto - the Waffen SS major who runs away with a nice Jewish girl. It's Elmore Leonard's world - gritty, funny, and full of surprises.
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This is a somewhat strange novel set mostly during the closing days of World War II, and mostly in Detroit. The plot seems to ramble a bit. There are entrepreneurs dealing in grey market beef and stolen goods, a couple of escaped POWs looking for a better life outside the prison camp, Germans or other foreign nationals supposedly engaged in espionage, a Federal marshall, the FBI, and Honey. They all get mixed in together, and nothing turns out quite as you might expect. Everyone seems to have their own ideas about what they want.
The novel has some violence, language, and sexual content. It incluses a few jokes as Honey tries to test someone's sense of humor.
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Other commentators have mentioned that this is a slow-moving book and, to be fair, it is less action-packed than others that Elmore Leonard has written but it is well worth buying nonetheless. It is a comic novel, more like "Get Shorty" than "Cat Chaser", and is probably best approached through the audiobook format. There the narrator Arliss Howard brings all these character to life with a master-class in regional accents: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Germany, Ukraine, Kentucky, etc. The seven disks in the set made a long trip through the Midwest seem days shorter.
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One thing I love about Elmore Leonard books is they are driven not just by plot -- as I find many crime/mysteries are -- but by great characters. Honey is a lot of fun.
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Incmprehensible plot. Ridiculous characters. Frivolous, inaccurate history. An absolutely appalling effort. I really hope the author goes back to contemproary Detroit. "Mr. Paradise" was one of many delightful Detroit thrillers with memorable, engaging characters and interesting plots.
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I have read over a dozen Elmore Leonard books so I would say that I'm a fan.
This book is disjointed and dull. The characters are forgetable and the plot is very slow. The theme of the book is confusing as it continues a character from "The Hot Kid", into a realm that makes no sense. Fictionalizing Nazis is a losing proposition. They're not interesting or funny. Better to read a historian's account and get the real deal.
The other aspect of this story that is odd is that one of the characters is named Otto Penzler. Otto Penzler (born July 8, 1942) is a well-known publisher and editor of mystery fiction in the United States and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, where he lives. Why did Leonard name a Nazi war criminal after a living person? Coincidence? Not.
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