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Aug 18, 2017jimg2000 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Read this most unusual thriller long ago by the Detroit Poet Elmore Leonard. Fast read it again in light of last weekends Charlottesville rallies by the KKK, Nazis, and white supremacist. Anyway, not in a million years I could have come up with the scenario "up in Honey's room" in mid-April 1945. With online resources, surprised how often Elmore was able to weave in factual people and incidences in the era, e.g. the infamous Mata Hari, Detroit restaurateur and Nazi-sympathizer Max Stephan, Fritz Julius Kuhn Bund rallies, Detroit factories retooled to make war machines ("They called this city the Arsenal of Democracy."), German POW camps, 1943 race riot, black markets in meat and nylons etc. Interesting read with the usual bunch of eclectic characters and twists. One of the prominent character was marshal Carl Webster from "The Hot Kid 2005" but he was just a side kick for Honig or Honey, "a free spirit who knows how to think."