Touch

The master storyteller's 20th novel. Charlie Lawson has the Touch. A former Franciscan monk kicked out of the Order for faith-healing too many of the afflicted, now he finds it hard to be a saint in the city, as his gift attracts a slew of cash-hungry hucksters and a beautiful baton-twirler who wants him to lay his hands on her. This edition features an introduction in which Leonard discusses the novel¿s unusual subject, noting, ¿I had a good time writing Touch, imagining mystical things happening to an ordinary person in a contemporary setting.¿ Treating a theme that has found new timeliness, Touch is perhaps Leonard¿s most moving, erotic love story; yet its violent and unexpected climax is pure, suspenseful Leonard.