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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

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"""The Hot Kid brims with the sly humor, sparse prose, and razor dialogue we expect from the master."" -- ""Los Angeles Times Book Review"" ""Clear, fast-paced, and masterfully structured."" -- ""Philadelphia Inquirer"" ""Elmore Leonard unspools the definitive portrait of 1930s lowlife."" -- ""Stephen King"" ""Expertly crafted, deftly balanced."" -- ""Houston Chronicle"" ""His fortieth crime novel--and he just keeps getting better and better."" -- ""Deseret News"" ""The writing is pitch-perfect throughout...it's all pure Leonard, and that means it's pure terrific."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""There's nothing Elmore Leonard doesn't know about stylish writing, and The Hot Kid is him at his compressed best."" -- ""Detroit Free Press"" ""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 Clear, fast-paced, and masterfully structured. -- Philadelphia Inquirer Elmore Leonard unspools the definitive portrait of 1930s lowlife. -- Stephen King Expertly crafted, deftly balanced. -- Houston Chronicle His fortieth crime novel--and he just keeps getting better and better. -- Deseret News The writing is pitch-perfect throughout...it's all pure Leonard, and that means it's pure terrific. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) There's nothing Elmore Leonard doesn't know about stylish writing, and The Hot Kid is him at his compressed best. -- Detroit Free Press This is a novel that...is all about style, literary and otherwise. -- New York Times Book Review

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"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. 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."

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