European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reviews Glitz is a shining example of crime writing by Allen Cowan staff writer theres no mystery about mystery writer Elmore Leonard and his latest he is simply the Best writer forget forget forget forget leonards the dialogues his Hes reaping the and Hes featured on the cover of news Wicks april 22 which inside devoted nearly four pages to the latest Star of the mystery in that Newsweek critic David Lehman rates Glitz among his 10 favorite crime novels of the 20th move Raymond Chandler and Agatha because Leonard is on the which is he began writing then turned to he was an and writer for he  earn a which was bad for the three time reformed he was divorced and and had five children to Leonard has since created 23 novels and 15 none were really before Leonard came out with it sold about All of a Hes becoming a household there Are More than copies of Glitz moving through american deservedly Glitz Doest have a great lets get that straight up a detective from Vincent recovering from a gunshot takes some in puerto he meets a Hooker named Falls in love and is distraught when she runs off to Atlantic City to become a All this Mora is being trailed by a rapist on parole he sent to jail years to attract the rapist goes to Atlantic City and tosses Iris off the 18th Story of a luxury Mora goes to the Boardwalk As an outsider without while assisting the he gets involved with the mafia and other assorted its a Good detective but its been done where Leonard excels is with his he creates characters who when they we feel the it is obviously a Craft to creating its the most difficult part of the and it Leonard told is hard Leonard listens to he listens to visiting them in if he listens to Street he listens to Arm Redcar Drivers and hotel Security Hes spent a lifetime refining in Mora finally goes to Atlantic City and solves the he goes to the funeral Home where Iris was and gets the urn with her Hes going to take Iris Home to puerto until he can return to the he carries her around for one after a hard Day sleuthing around casinos and the Mora and latest return to his Iris is Leonard writes he closed the double locked when he turned Linda was close enough to her coat off her holding looking at the polished stainless steel urn standing on the she is it going to bother you what Iris being his hands move Over her shoulders to take her get it out from Between ill put Iris in a when Mora first gets to Atlantic a cop Friend tells him details of Iris its a Baleful its its made More powerful because it appears where least theres a movement to leonards theres no formula stuff a la in Leonard confesses when he begins a he has no idea where its i Start out hearing a Leonard told not so much what his background i know a Little about but what does he sound like in not sure i want to learn his Leonard takes anecdotes Hes picked up on the works crafts kneads them like Clay strings them together and then adds the transitions and that explains Why the Story line is generally it was that Way in 52 the Story of a suburban Michigan Man being blackmailed Over an affair he wants kept secret from his not much of a in that Leonard creates one of the most chilling scenes Ever put to he balks at so the blackmailers decide to kill his they record her then Force the Boyfriend to watch the it because weve never been allowed to know the throughout this Leonard displays the same the same Subtle nuance of characters that he does in these layer upon eventually blend into a textured sort of like a gourmet the individual each a culinary served in proper in a gentle emerge As a blend of the sections Are and could stand the entirety is breaking with Russia offers nothing new thanks to Arkady the world has yet another Boring Book about life in Russia and soviet breaking with Moscow is a russian it is like the and equally has taken the Money and his Book is a runaway Best no doubt being snatched up by people wanting insight the Book promises but never thanks to buyers generosity the Book Sells for a hefty Shevchenko now can live comfortably in the a lifestyle he Pines for in his he was a capitalist born into a socialist and he rebelled and defected while living in new unlike other dissidents who remain and fight for change from Shevchenko fled in the night to a life of imperialist on top of who would Trust a Man who sneaks out on his wife under cover of darkness in a break for leaving her to fend for herself i tiptoed to our bedroom took a last look at Rny sleeping Slid the envelope just inside the door and then left the he Shevchenko never confided in and acted surprised when she was snatched by the Kab and returned to he she commits which raises another troubling aspect to Shevchenko is he for real or is he an agent of disinformation Well never but its another Little nagging Point that eats at his he has appeared in time in an interview with Mike Wallace on 60 minutes and the Phil Donahue he takes his second an with she helped with the in it is dedicated to not the woman he fed to the or the children he breaking with Moscow lacks insight and it is Short on history and Long on self serving it is Long on the evils of the soviet siege mentality but offers Little in the Way of remedy or those who believe Russia is falling apart and doomed to centuries of misery will love this those seeking revelations and understanding can find them in other Hedrick Smiths the is plodding and at its better than it contains a wealth of much better crafted is Andrea Lees russian which cuts to the russian soul in half the the highest ranking soviet official Ever to defect Svetlana Stalin was a private citizen when she came Westward was undersecretary general of the United nations when he crossed Over in he liked his and living in new what he loathed was the hypocrisy of his they supported russian they when forced to shill for a system he no longer believed Shevchenko became increasingly enough to turn at first he asked for said the we want you to spy for so Shevchenko involuntarily became a spy for the Cia and three years when spying became he he tells us that politburo members Are More interested in guns than he tells us that Russia has a great propaganda and that its official policy is to lie a its official policy is to Tell soviet citizens As Little As Shevchenko tells us that the russians Are Bent on worldwide and that arms talks and the like Are Little More than ploys for he tells us that the soviet leaders Are bullies in bullies that not surprising from a country that shot Down a civilian Airliner which strayed into its he tells us that soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko is not the Hawk he none of this is very and that the disappointment with the one of Shevchenko most revealing details is that the idea of a Large scale military operation in to be carried out by originated with Havana and not that is knowing that Cuba is Little More than a puppet regime of equally but totally without is Shevchenko observation that the russians May have caused the death of Secretary general Dag while on a trip to the Congo in Hammarskjold died in a plane Shevchenko speculates the crash was not but offers no i have tried to Tell the Shevchenko i have searched for the truth about about the country i grew up to love and the regime i Learned to know and i Hope i have contributed to exposing the to weaken their Appeal and to bringing nearer the Day when the people to whom i still belong will be As to speak the truth openly for All the world to after Reading your they just dont the overriding impression is that we May be getting the but certainly not the whole truth and nothing but the Allen Cowan 20 stripes Magazine May