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SHOOTING ELVIS Robert M. Eversz (Grove Press, $21) Nice girl Mary Alice Baker gets suckered by her low-life boyfriend into delivering a mysterious suitcase to LAX. When it turns out to contain a bomb, and the airport blows up, she flees the scene, checks into a motel, dyes her blond hair black, pierces her nose, and emerges as mean girl Nina Zero. Nina -- who, with the inner life of a nose ring, makes for a bland narrator -- then embarks on an easily foreseeable run from the authorities and the terrorists who set her up. This fast-paced, go-nowhere novel tries hard to be a cool literary fusion of Natural Born Killers and Thelma & Louise by snagging obvious elements from each: a media machine hungry for a young killer's story, a fugitive woman getting violent revenge on jerky guys. But lacking original insight, style, or some redeeming quirkiness, the result is just so much hip, formulaic twaddle. C-
Posted Apr 12, 1996
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