Lovers of language will lose themselves in The Great Leader
The angst and grief of a middle-aged man coping with the divorce of a wife he loved, the uncertainty of retirement and the bothersome lust and subsequent guilt he feels for a teenaged neighbour is an unlikely theme for a mystery novel. But as author Jim Harrison has correctly subtitled it, The Great Leader is "a faux mystery" " and a compelling character study of a man in search of himself.