Billionaire with the blues; Don DeLillo's latest tale of murder and antiheroes is a trip back to the Nineties.(Review) From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: April 22, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: ROBERT MACFARLANE

COSMOPOLIS by Don DeLillo (Picador, pound sterling16.99)

THE first thing one notices about all of Don DeLillo's characters is that they never pause or hesitate. They speak in perfectly turned and concluded sentences. Most of them speak in essays.

Somewhere, DeLillo must have a very big book filled with these expurgated "ums", "errs" and pauses. Or perhaps he gives them all to Harold Pinter.

Eric Packer, the implausibly articulate antihero of Cosmopolis, could have been written by no one other than DeLillo. Packer is the 28-yearold head ...

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