“I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't doSo the little got more and more” So Saith Axl Rose in the Guns N’ Roses Anthem “Mr. Brownstone” (For those of you Dear Readers who know neither Guns N’ Roses nor drug slang, it is a song about heroin addiction.) If it were not for the intolerance of chronology to have the Order of Time broken, those lines from a 1987 song would have been an excellent epigraph in Elmore Leonard’s 1976 novel, Swag. The set-up: Frank Ryan, a car salesman, … [Read more...] about Swag and Temptation