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Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Pagan Babies about?
Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nine Inch Nails T-shirt-wearing padre is back trying to hustle up a score to help the little orphans of Rwanda. But the fund-raising gets complicated when a former tattletale cohort pops up on Terry's tail. And then there's the lovely Debbie Dewey. A freshly sprung ex-con turned stand-up comic, Debbie needs some fast cash, too, to settle an old score. Now they're in together for a bigger payoff than either could finagle alone. After all, it makes sense . . . unless Father Terry is working a con of his own.Amazon.com ReviewAfter 30-odd novels, one might think that Elmore Leonard has nothing left to prove. But Pagan Babies, a novel filled with his signatures (tight plotting, scathing wit, and that grittily realistic dialogue), shows once again why he sets the standard against which other crime novels are measured. In fact, Leonard has raised the bar. How many authors would dare use the Rwandan genocide as backdrop for a story that moves gaily between romantic comedy and a massive, labyrinthi
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- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- Publisher
- Harper Torch
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781429997256
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery
- Rating
- 3.51 / 5 (2,778 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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