The Switch (5)

The Switch, by Elmore Leonard Read: 4/13/15 Was on vacation and laying on the beach, seemed like a great time to read a Leonard novel. Story is set in Detroit in the late 70's and some of the styles and habits are amusing. Bright suits, lots of drinking and smoking... ah the good ole days - lol. The story is of Mickey who is married to Frank Dawson, successful businessman, she has a nice house in the suburbs, membership to the club, money.. yet she is not happy with her life, or her marriage. As she struggles with her unhappiness and why she doesn't express it better to her husband, she is kidnapped by Ordell and Louis. They have the inside information that Frank has a racket going downtown restoring apartment buildings using stolen materials and then renting them to pimps for cash and putting half of it in a private account in Freeport. Mickey is oblivious to all of this... and also that Frank is there with his mistress... or right before he left he had filed for divorce. So his wife he is trying to divorce is kidnapped, and if he doesn't pay $1 million dollars he will never see her again. Huh... what to do... Like many Elmore Leonard stories that is a twist a the end. You get more wrapped up in the characters than the actual outcome.