The Hot Kid
Forget the Wild West. Elmore Leonard's Depression-era Oklahoma is rippling with gun battles, bank holdups, kidnap plots, and extortion schemes. At the center of his 40th novel is True Detective Mystery hack Tony Antonelli, hot on the trail of his two favorite subjects, U.S. Marshal Carl (or...
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Forget the Wild West. Elmore Leonard's Depression-era Oklahoma is rippling with gun battles, bank holdups, kidnap plots, and extortion schemes. At the center of his 40th novel is True Detective Mystery hack Tony Antonelli, hot on the trail of his two favorite subjects, U.S. Marshal Carl (or Carlos) Webster and perennial bad boy Jack Belmont, the son of a wildcat oilman. Again and again, gangster and lawman tangle, then move on to fight another day. The Hot Kid exudes fascinating historical details but never relinquishes its magic. A nonstop read.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780060789985 (0060789980)
Publish date: May 10th 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition language: English
Series: Carl Webster (#1)
Sad that it takes a man's death to get me to finally read one of his books...And man, have I missed out!Elmore Leonard writes the sort of straight-forward, workman-like prose that is a pleasure to read. You won't get much in the way of poetic flourishes or long meditations on human psyche. But his c...
My first Elmore Leonard novel. He's a terse, pacey author, and The Hot Kid is pretty much Hollywood in a book, but a nicely-filmed Hollywood with engaging if not terribly deep characters.It's a 1930s gangster piece. Carlos Webster is the son of a wealthy pecan farmer. At 15 he shot a man who was try...
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