The Hot Kid: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Leonard, Elmore

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060724226 ISBN 13 : 9780060724221

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Leonard Elmore

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals service, is polite, respects his elders, and can shoot a man driving away in an Essex at four hundred yards. Carl works out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, federal courthouse during the 1930s, the period of America's most notorious bank robbers: Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson -- those guys.

Carl wants to be America's most famous lawman. He shot his first felon when he was fifteen years old. With a Winchester.

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. She and Heidi and the girls work at Teddy's in Kansas City, where anything goes and the girls wear -- what else -- teddies.

Jack Belmont wants to rob banks, become public enemy number one, and show his dad, an oil millionaire, he can make it on his own.

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.

Revue de presse :

“This is a novel that... is all about style, literary and otherwise.” (New York Times Book Review)

“THE HOT KID brims with the sly humor, sparse prose and razor dialogue we expect from the master” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

“The writing is pitch-perfect throughout...it’s all pure Leonard, and that means it’s pure terrific.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

Clear, fast-paced and masterfully structured.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

“The HOT KID is Elmore Leonard- a master- at his best.” (Oklahoma City Oklahoman)

“...expertly crafted, deftly balanced.” (Houston Chronicle)

“...Rips along like a bandit’s getaway car...THE HOT KID is Leonard at his best.” (Tulsa World)

“...delivers the goods in a top-notch amalgam of sagebrush western and mob drama.” (Lexington Herald-Leader)

“There’s nothing Elmore Leonard doesn’t know about stylish writing, and THE HOT KID is him at his compressed best.” (Detroit Free Press)

“Wonderfully funny and hair-raising...THE HOT KID is splendid.” (Providence Sunday Journal)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060724226
• ISBN 13: 9780060724221
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320