The Hot Kid - Softcover

Leonard, Elmore

3.78

5,153 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060787163 ISBN 13: 9780060787165

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2005

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Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals service, works out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, federal courthouse during the 1930s.

Louly Brown loves Carl but wants the world to think she is Pretty Boy Floyd's girlfriend.

Tony Antonelli of True Detective magazine wants to write like Richard Harding Davis and wishes cute little Elodie wasn't a whore.

Jack Belmont wants to rob banks and become public enemy number one.

With tommy guns, hot cars, speakeasies, cops and robbers, and a former lawman who believes in vigilante justice, all played out against the flapper period of gun molls and Prohibition, The Hot Kid is Elmore Leonard -- a true master -- at his best.

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Review:

."..expertly crafted, deftly balanced." -- Houston Chronicle

"Smart writing about dumb crooks." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Clear, fast-paced and masterfully structured." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

Praise for MR.PARADISE:"The dialogue and the characters crackle ...MR. PARADISE is a perfect crime caper from a master." -- Detroit Free Press

."..expertly crafted, deftly balanced."--Houston Chronicle

."..delivers the goods in a top-notch amalgam of sagebrush western and mob drama."--Lexington Herald-Leader

"The HOT KID is Elmore Leonard- a master- at his best."--Oklahoma City Oklahoman

"His 40th crime novel --and he just keeps getting better and better. "--Deseret News

"Elmore Leonard unspools the definitive portrait of 1930s lowlife"--Boston Sunday Globe (Stephen King)

"There's nothing Elmore Leonard doesn't know about stylish writing, and THE HOT KID is him at his compressed best."--Detroit Free Press

Book Description:

A publishing event - the new novel from the celebrated author of Get Shorty and Rum Punch.

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