Leper Tango

by David J. MacKinnon

Leper Tango is an end of millennium tale of an ambulance chasing lawyer who uses his ill-gotten gains to whore and drink in Paris, where he falls for a dead-end, suicidal femme fatale named Sheba. The first part of a trilogy of novels (The Graveyard Of The Innocents), some set in Europe and others set in Quebec, Leper Tango recounts the lunar trajectory of Franck Robinson - a self-confessed member of "the despised and despicable sub-species of skirt-chaser known as the john". During one of Franck's regular free-falls into the Parisian night, he meets Sheba, who moves from being Franck's favourite hooker to being Franck's obsession.

300 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

David J. MacKinnon is a Sorbonne graduate in history, a member of two law societies and has translated for the International Criminal Tribunals of Rwanda,the Hague & Yugoslavia. He is co-founder of the Long March to Rome, an indigenous-led mission seeking repeal of the Papal Bulls of Discovery. In earlier days, he worked as oil field roughneck, toilet factory worker, longshoreman and morgue attendant. He has walked the ancient Santiago de Compostela pilgrim's trail and to Chartres several times. A Voluntary Crucifixion, MacKinnon's memoirs, recounts the tale of his adventures and misadventures from a year of living dangerously in post-Tiananmen Hong Kong to surviving tinpot dictatorships in various ports of call in the Indian Ocean and life during the heady days of Quebec separatism. All his writing is derived from experience, and the belief that freedom is not a gift, but something you wrench from the clutch of your oppressors.

Reviews

[Rayta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the book! The metaphors the author uses are hilarious. A must read novel if you don't take blue devils too seriously :)