Pagan Babies

By Elmore Leonard

Subjects: Fiction, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Criminals, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Revenge, Fund raising, Detroit (mich.), fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Africa, fiction, Americans, Mystery fiction, Priests, Criminals, fiction, Women ex-convicts, Detective and mystery stories

Description: 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.