I am reading a very excellent book now - nonfiction- called The Lampshade : A Holocaust detective story from Buchenwald to New Orleans by Mark Jacobson. The title is fairly self explanatory but what starts it off is this guy buys an old lampshade in a junk shop in New Orleans after Katrina; the guy he buys it from calls it a "Nazi lampshade"; he has it DNA tested and the results say it IS human skin. To find out more, you have to read the book.

Elmore Leonard's latest, Djibouti, just came out and its all the things you read EL for. Much better than his last few efforts. Its about a female documentary filmmaker working on the pirates in East Africa - Somalia, etc. . Call and reserve now, its probably going to have a long waiting list.