The Hot Kid by Leonard, Elmore (9780752880730) | Browns Books
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The Hot Kid

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Hot cars, gun molls, speakeasies, bank robbers and murder are the game in this powerfully entertaining story from Elmore Leonard, the undisputed master of the crime novel.

Set in Oklahoma during the 1930s, "The Hot Kid" introduces Carl Webster, one of the coolest lawmen ever to draw on a fugitive felon.

At 21, Carl Webster's on his way to becoming the most famous Deputy US Marshal in America.

He's shot and killed notorious bank robber Emmet Long, and is now tracking Jack Belmont, the no-good son of an oil millionaire with dreams of becoming Public Enemy Number One.

True Detective writer Tony Antonelli is following the story, and this one's big, full of beautiful women, Tommy guns and a former lawman who believes in vigilante justice. "The Hot Kid" is one exhilarating story playing out against the flapper period of gun molls and Prohibition.

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075288073X / 9780752880730
Paperback / softback
813.54
09/06/2011
United Kingdom
English
Modern crime
319 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005.
A New York Times and Evening Standard top ten bestseller 'The Hot Kid is the quintessence of gangster chic...as the Model T's rattle across the wide-open spaces, you can see the dust trails unfurl behind them, hear the jazz on the soundtrack. How does Leonard do it? He just keeps on getting better and better' Evening Standard 'To sum up the plot in one word: kerpow!' Daily Express 'The dialogue crackles, it moves forwards, back and sideways, and carries the narrative, but most of all it really belongs to the characters, so that every one of them seems to invent himself out of his own mouth...a
A New York Times and Evening Standard top ten bestseller 'The Hot Kid is the quintessence of gangster chic...as the Model T's rattle across the wide-open spaces, you can see the dust trails unfurl behind them, hear the jazz on the soundtrack. How does Leonard do it? He just keeps on getting better and better' Evening Standard 'To sum up the plot in one word: kerpow!' Daily Express 'The dialogue crackles, it moves forwards, back and sideways, and carries the narrative, but most of all it really belongs to the characters, so that every one of them seems to invent himself out of his own mouth...a FF Crime & mystery

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