The Hot Kid
ISBN:
9780060845902 (0060845902)
Publish date: May 3rd 2005
Publisher: HarperAudio
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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