Synopses & Reviews
“An excellent read….Concrete evidence of a master crime writer still at the top of his game.”
—Russel D. McLean, author of The Good Son
“The reigning King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times), Elmore Leonard first introduced quick-triggered legendary lawman Carl Webster in the New York Times bestseller, The Hot Kid, and brought him back for an encore Up in Honeys Room. In Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories, the loose cannon U.S. marshal struts his stuff once more in three electrifying new tales. Comfort to the Enemy is more indisputable proof that Elmore Leonard is indeed, as Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island) puts it, “The greatest crime writer who ever lived.”
Synopsis
An excellent read .Concrete evidence of a master crime writer still at the top of his game. Russel D. McLean, author of The Good Son The reigning King Daddy of crime writers (Seattle Times), Elmore Leonard first introduced quick-triggered legendary lawman Carl Webster in the New York Times bestseller, The Hot Kid, and brought him back for an encore Up in Honey s Room. In Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories, the loose cannon U.S. marshal struts his stuff once more in three electrifying new tales. Comfort to the Enemy is more indisputable proof that Elmore Leonard is indeed, as Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island) puts it, The greatest crime writer who ever lived. "
Synopsis
"An excellent read....Concrete evidence of a master crime writer still at the top of his game."
--Russel D. McLean, author of
The Good Son"The reigning King Daddy of crime writers" (
Seattle Times), Elmore Leonard first introduced quick-triggered legendary lawman Carl Webster in the
New York Times bestseller,
The Hot Kid, and brought him back for an encore
Up in Honey's Room. In
Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories, the loose cannon U.S. marshal struts his stuff once more in three electrifying new tales.
Comfort to the Enemy is more
indisputable proof that Elmore Leonard is indeed, as Dennis Lehane (
Mystic River, Shutter Island) puts it, "The greatest crime writer who ever lived."
Synopsis
The Hot Kid of the U.S. Marshals Service, Carl Webster maintains the law with a cool, showdown attitude. He's one of the richest creations in Elmore Leonard's half century of delivering the goods. From his appearances in the critically acclaimed novels
The Hot Kid and
Up in Honey's Room, Carl returns to lay down the law in a novella that originally appeared as a serial in the
New York Times Sunday Magazine.
The title novella — plus two Carl Webster short stories — traces Carl's career from his run-in with 1930s gangsters to his investigation of a murder at a German POW camp in Oklahoma. This time it's Carl against war-seasoned Afrika Korps Nazis. With its pitch-perfect dialogue, compelling characters, and classic charm, Comfort to the Enemy is vintage Leonard.
Synopsis
Carl Webster, the gunslinging U.S. Marshal from The Hot Kid and Up in Honey's Room, serves as the centerpiece of two stories and one novella, in this never-before-published-in-the-U.S. collection from the inimitable Elmore Leonard.
About the Author
Elmore Leonard wrote forty-five novels and nearly as many western and crime short stories across his highly successful career that spanned more than six decades. Some of his bestsellers include Road Dogs, Up in Honeys Room, The Hot Kid, Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, and the critically acclaimed collection of short stories Fire in the Hole. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty, Out of Sight, and Rum Punch, which became Quentin Tarantinos Jackie Brown. Justified, the hit series from FX, is based on Leonards character Raylan Givens, who appears in Riding the Rap, Pronto, Raylan and the short story “Fire in the Hole”. He was a recipient of the National Book Foundations Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA, and the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America. He was known to many as the ‘Dickens of Detroit and was a long-time resident of the Detroit area.