Rowdy in Paris eBook Edition
Rowdy Talbot is an American Western tough-guy – think the the Marlboro Man. After reading Tim Sandlin's latest book I came to the conclusion that it is all about the hat and a descent cup of coffee!
The plot is pretty simple -- a bull-riding cowboy goes to Paris to get his stolen belt buckle back. Within hours he finds himself up to his neck (or maybe somewhere slightly loser) in a plot to destroy both McDonalds and Starbucks. The execution is much more complex.
This is a delightful romp in typical Sandlin style. Offbeat characters, spicy dialogue and great satire. I found my self laughing (out loud) every few pages.
Sandlin takes great delight in poking fun at pretty much everyone -- the French, the Americans, cowboys, poets, spies, intellectuals and women. And so what if it stretches credulity to the breaking point? I'm more than willing to suspend belief for a good laugh!
This is a fun read. And if you haven't read his earlier books this is an intro that will leave you wanting more.
The publishers says:
A rollicking comic romp by the author of Skipped Parts and Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty. Rowdy Talbot isn't the world's greatest bull rider. Not even close. But he lives by the cowboy code, and he never forgets to take off his cowboy hat during the national anthem. When Rowdy wins the rodeo in Crockett County, Colorado, he celebrates his triumph with two young Frenchwomen he meets in a local bar. The next morning, when he discovers that the two have left for Paris with the championship belt buckle he won, Rowdy does what any true cowboy would: He hops on a plane to the City of Light to retrieve it.
What follows is a comic collision of cultures and personalities. In Rowdy in Paris, Tim Sandlin has concocted an unlikely but engaging m¿lange of characters: disaffected French revolutionaries, a turquoise-peddling CIA operative, and a middle-aged courtesan, all caught in a plot to destroy an American fast-food chain.
At the center of the chaos is Rowdy himself, who finds as he searches for the belt buckle that there's another world beyond the back of a bull. By turns smart and satirical, biting and engaging, Rowdy in Paris is a surprisingly moving story about what it means to broaden one's horizons by opening one's heart.
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