Free Thrills At Amazon From Another Leonard
Free download this weekend -- a gripping thriller I couldn't put down, Voices of the Dead -- from Elmore Leonard's son Peter. I loved that the main character, Harry, is a Detroit scrap dealer.

My great grandfather, who immigrated to this country from Russia, didn't own a scrap yard like Harry, but he was in the same biz, picking up metal scrap and selling it, and sent my grandfather to college and med school at Wayne State. My grandfather became a family doctor. So, I guess you could say my family really came up out of trash.

The book is free, but the link goes through to credit my Advice Goddess account. If you download it, I get credit for it as a "purchase" even though the purchase is zero. The more downloads there are, the more likely my percentage of of Amazon purchases will go up to 7% or maybe even 7.5%.

But, it's a book I couldn't stop reading (even in the wee hours, when I was exhausted out of my mind and really wanted to go to sleep), and that's really why you should download it -- or buy the hard copy at this link.

Here's Peter with Elmore from a lit conference Gregg and I and Peter attended with Elmore in Mantua, Italy. (Doesn't he look like he should be getting into a WWI bomber?)

This is embarrassing but my Kindle battery was dead. Downloading now.

Jim P. at March 24, 2012 11:21 AM

Great, Jim P. Let me know how you like it. He isn't trying to ape Elmore or anything -- although the spareness of his prose is definitely EL-influenced. This is much more plot-driven than Elmore's books, which I love to pieces (Swag is my fave).

Amy Alkon at March 24, 2012 11:36 AM

done

(but I still have a good-sized stack to read before I get to it)

Dwatney at March 24, 2012 12:24 PM

"(Doesn't he look like he should be getting into a WWI bomber?)"

A restored one, from WW2 or Korea, yes. WW1's sorta out there.

Mostly young men went to fight that war - as with most wars.

Radwaste at March 24, 2012 3:56 PM

Thanks. I got mine.

I need to invest in a Kindle Reader. I only have the app on my phone. It's sorta like reading a lightbulb.

tinygnat at March 24, 2012 7:46 PM

Amy Alkon

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/03/24/free_thrills_at.html#comment-3097228">comment from tinygnat

Hah - I know. I was reading Wodehouse on my iPhone for a while. Luckily, I get hand-me-down technology from Gregg -- now have his first-gen iPad, which is fabulous for my purposes. PS For anyone who reads PDFs and wants to annotate them -- fab program I use on my iPad, iAnnotate.

Amy Alkon at March 24, 2012 7:53 PM

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