Books
March, 1984
The "hero" of God's Pocket (Random House), Pete Dexter's fine first novel, is the corpse of a jabbering psychopath named Leon Hubbard, whose life ends as the story begins. The attempt to dispose of Leon's body triggers a rollicking chain of events that seems bound to undo everyone who comes in contact with the corpse—the cops, the reporters, the Mobsters, the barflies and the relatives who hang, like bats, from Leon's family tree. These are the people of God's Pocket, a tough Philadelp...
