Hot Kid, Elmore Leonard
Hot Kid, Elmore Leonard
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Hot Kid

Author: Elmore Leonard

Narrator: Arliss Howard

Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/10/2005

Synopsis

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 in 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.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 -- the true master -- at his best.Performed by Arliss Howard

About Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard wrote more than forty books during his long career, including the bestsellers Raylan, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool, Get Shorty, and Rum Punch, as well as the acclaimed collection When the Women Come Out to Dance, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight. The short story “Fire in the Hole,” and three books, including Raylan, were the basis for the FX hit show Justified. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He died in 2013.

About Arliss Howard

Versatile actor Arliss Howard has appeared in films by many renowned directors, including Steven Spielberg, in Amistad and Jurassic Park: The Lost World; Stanley Kubrick, in Full Metal Jacket; and Oliver Stone, in Natural Born Killers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on August 17, 2024

Elmore Leonard was famous both for his excellent westerns and his even better crime novels. Set in the Great Plains of the 1930s, this book is something of a combination of the two. It's the time of the Great Depression when the country's newspapers and magazines breathlessly exploited the stories o......more

Goodreads review by David on January 28, 2013

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......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 22, 2014

More of a 2.5. Carl is a neat character, but the book encompassed a bit too much territory & didn't focus well enough for me. Leonard's gritty style chopped it up a bit too much as we skipped from character to character without really getting into any of them properly which was a shame, because he s......more

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