Up in Honey's Room

Name: Up in Honey's Room
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Elmore Leonard
ISBN: 9780061449994

Author: Elmore Leonard

Narrator: Arliss Howard

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 05/08/2007

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Literary Fiction, Crime

Synopsis

The Odd Thingabout Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know that Walter is a member of a spy ring and gives shelter to escaped German POWs. But she's tired of telling him jokes he doesn't understand—it's time for a divorce.Along comes Carl Webster, the Hot Kid of the Marshals Service. He's looking for Jurgen Schrenk. Carl's pretty sure Walter's involved with keeping Schrenk hidden so he gets to know Honey, hoping she'll lead him to Walter. Honey likes the hot kid marshal and doesn't much care that he's married. But all Carl wants is to get Jurgen without getting shot. Next, Carl meets Vera Mezwa, the Ukrainian head of the spy ring, and her lover Bohdan, with a sly way of killing. And then there's Otto—the Waffen-SS major who runs away with a nice Jewish girl. It's Elmore Leonard's world—gritty, funny, and full of surprises.

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 September 16, 2024

This is Elmore Leonard's second novel to feature U.S. Marshal Carl Webster, the "Hot Kid," who was first introduced in The Hot Kid. It is now 1944. The Second World War is raging, and Carl is back in the U.S. after being wounded in combat and mustered out of the military. The book finds him in Detro......more

Goodreads review by Nick on July 15, 2023

Up In Honey’s Room Elmore Leonard wrote “Up In Honey’s Room” at the age of 82 and wrote three more novels after that… before he died at the age of 87. I think that should give some hope to us Stephen King fans who fear that the master (now merely in his late 60’s) will stop writing any time soon. It......more

Goodreads review by Greg on June 13, 2014

Good book with fun characterizations and witty dialogue. I liked it, but I don't remember a whole lot about it. Overall it's a good read, but kind of disposable. A good airplane book.......more

Goodreads review by Keith on October 22, 2012

Honey Deal, a Kentucky girl who moved to Detroit during the depression met and married a butcher named Walter, who is himself an immigrant but from somewhat farther away. Walter is German by birth and a doppelganger for Heinrich Himmler—who he believes is his twin brother—and is involved with a Germ......more

Goodreads review by Scott on July 22, 2012

"Up in Honey's Room" is Elmore Leonard's follow-up novel to "The Hot Kid". U.S. Marshall Carlos "Carl" Webster is a little bit older, but he's still got it. It's 1944 and the Allied Forces are kicking Germany's ass. Carl is state-side rounding up criminals and occasionally AWOL German soldiers who m......more