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Availability: Not available new from Amazon.com
Edition: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow (2004-01-13)
ISBN-10/ISBN-13: 0060083956 / 9780060083953
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 1854673
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Other editionsPaperback (William Morrow Paperbacks $14.99)
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“Elmore Leonard's previous work has demonstrated he's got a sense of humor. He's hip and has the ability to keep readers involved, even if some miss an ‘in’ joke or have no idea there's a literary allusion. You will love this excellent book even if you make nothing of the fact that the victim, surname Paradiso, is known as Mr. Paradise. If you want to, though, you can let your mind wander to Paradise Lost in Book One, where we find Milton's famous line (which happens to be spoken by a fallen archangel): ‘The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.’ Leonard is chronicling a struggle between good and evil.”
“Mr. Paradise is about deception. People deceive through false identity (appropriating, dissembling), just as they, themselves, have been deceived—whether by the implied promise of collapsed dot-coms or by positive, false assumptions about family.”
Ann Beattie (The New York Times)
Roommates Kelly and Chloe are enjoying their lives and their downtown Detroit loft just fine. Kelly is a Victoria's Secret catalog model. Chloe is an escort, until she decides to ditch her varied clientele in favor of a steady gig as girlfriend to eighty-four-year-old retired lawyer Tony Paradiso, a.k.a. Mr. Paradise.
Evenings at Mr. Paradise's house, there's always an old Michigan football game on TV. And when Chloe's around, there's a cheerleader, too, complete with pleated skirt and blue-and-gold pompoms. One night Chloe convinces Kelly to join in the fun, along with Montez Taylor, Tony's smooth-talking right-hand man.
But things go awry and before the end of the evening there will be two corpses, two angry hit men, one switch of identity, a safe-deposit box full of loot up for grabs, and, fast on the scene, detective Frank Delsa, who now has a double homicide -- and a beautiful, willful witness -- to add to his already heavy caseload.
With a cool cast, snappy dialogue, and all the twists and turns fans crave, Mr. Paradise is Elmore Leonard at home in Detroit and sharper than ever.
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