The Hot Country, Robert Olen Butler
The Hot Country, Robert Olen Butler
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The Hot Country
A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller

Author: Robert Olen Butler

Narrator: Ray Chase

Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2012


Synopsis

Christopher Marlowe Cobb (“Kit”), the swashbuckling early 20th-century American newspaper war correspondent, travels to Mexico in April and May of 1914, during that country’s civil war and the American invasion of Vera Cruz.
 
 But covering the war in enemy territory and in sweltering heat isn’t enough of a challenge for Cobb. Soon, he’s falling in love with a young Mexican laundress, Luisa, who may not be as innocent as she seems, and he’s witnessing the inexplicable attempted sniper assassination of a priest (miraculously, the bullet rebounds off the cross around his neck, leaving him unharmed). Now Cobb is also trying to track down a sniper—and figure out why important German officials are coming into the city in the middle of the night from ammunition ships docked in the port.
 
 An exciting tale of intrigue and espionage, Butler’s powerful crime-fiction debut is a thriller not to be missed.

About Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of nineteen novels, including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James

This book is subtitled, "A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller," but in truth it moves at a pretty languid pace until the last quarter of the book or so. That is not to suggest that it's a bad book by any means, only that it does not race along at the pace one would normally expect of a thriller. Chris......more

Goodreads review by Greg

This is the first book I've ever read by Robert Olen Butler. A couple of years ago I read a few excerpts from Severance in Tin House or some magazine like that, and I liked the pieces but thought they would get too gimmicky as a collection. This isn't really that important though. I guess what I'm t......more

Goodreads review by Trish

Olen Butler tries something unique with this wartime spy novel set in Veracruz, Mexico in 1914. World War I was beginning in Europe, Mexico was experiencing armed insurrection as part of the Mexican Revolution, the United States occupied Veracruz after a diplomatic dispute, and Germans came to use m......more

Goodreads review by Trish

Olen Butler tries something unique with this wartime spy novel set in Veracruz, Mexico in 1914. World War I was beginning in Europe, Mexico was experiencing armed insurrection as part of the Mexican Revolution, the United States occupied Veracruz after a diplomatic dispute, and Germans came to use m......more