Elmore, with typical candor, tells Neal Rubin about the new one he’s working on. “So far, he (Elmore) has an American traveling to Djibouti to shoot a documentary on Somali pirates, and a nattily dressed pirate showing up in Louisiana 60 days later.”

Topical Elmore. I like it.

I wonder if there’s any truth to the rumor that he’ll introduce Little Richard’s illegitimate son, Maurice Penniman, to readers in this one, the young rocker doing his first hit, “Tutti Frutti, Djibouti,” b/w “Did Ya Bootie Slap” (pronounced Djibouti Slap).

P.S. As an historical footnote, below are the original lyrics for Tutti Frutti. Richard was asked to clean them up, his stage act version not seen as fit for commercial release. I wonder why not.

“A wop bop a loo mop, a good goddam!
Tutti frutti, loose booty
If it don’t fit, don’t force it
You can grease it, make it easy.”

Somali pirate having role in EL book ?

I dont like what the pirates are doing but as a Somali the idea is awesome just because its an EL book even if its a negative thing like these pirates.

Ha, yeah, we Canadians get The Blackbird in Killshot. Also a reference to some Canadian peacekeepers in The Hunted as, “assholes,” which was great to see. We get tired of being called, “nice,” all the time, the way people talk about a slightly retarded child .

Being from Somalia i would take canada’s good rep as being nice place over what people think of my homeland

Before it was only anarky, warlords and now we have the most infamous pirates in the world yeesh

Aaaaaaaaa!–––I cannot wait for this book! I finished ‘Cuba Libre’ about six months ago––that and ‘Touch’ being the only novels in Elmore Leonard’s cannon I hadn’t read to that point––and I though I adore Florida (Where I live & Detroit) iconic locations in Mr. Leonard’s novels––seems to be when the master leaves these familiar landscapes, like in ‘Tishamingo Blues’, ‘The Hunted,  ‘Cuba Libre’ & ‘Pronto’, he does a fantastic job. ‘Blues’ is probably my favorite Elmore Leonard novel of all time! And so I peer out into the future––above––and wait in frenetic impatience for ‘‘Dijibouti’