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The Hot Kid is a 2005 novel by Elmore Leonard. [1] Plot summary. This fictional story is set during The Great Depression and follows the career of Carl (Carlos) Webster, a crack shot, well respected, and mannerful lawman who killed his first criminal, aged 15.
- Elmore Leonard
- 2005
Jan 1, 2005 · The Hot Kid takes place in depression era Oklahoma in the 1930s. Carlos Webster came face to face with a hardened criminal, Emmett Long, when he was 15 who called him a greaser, stole his ice cream cone, and killed an Indian Cop.
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May 10, 2005 · Leonard’s 40th novel sweetly revisits the Depression, when every Oklahoma kid dreamed of growing up to be a lawman or a gangster. The hot kid is Carl (né Carlos) Webster, a young U.S. marshal out of Tulsa with so much fire in his belly that some folks wonder if he actually enjoys killing bad guys.
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May 8, 2005 · The "Hot Kid" of the title is Carlos Webster, the son of a wealthy pecan farmer and Spanish-American War hero. When he is 15, Carlos witnesses a drugstore robbery and cold-blooded killing,...
Having made his name by killing notorious bank robber Emmet Long, Deputy U.S. Marshal Carl Webster embarks on a dangerous search for Jack Belmont, the son of an oil millionaire who dreams of becoming Public Enemy Number One. Notes. No TOC. Access-restricted-item. true. Addeddate. 2010-08-31 15:23:44. Bookplateleaf. 0009. Boxid. IA120402. Boxid_2.
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 -- a true master -- at his best.
Feb 16, 2012 · Set in Oklahoma during the 1930s, THE HOT KID is a powerfully entertaining story and introduces Carl Webster, one of the coolest lawmen ever to draw on a fugitive felon. At 21, Carl Webster's on his way to becoming the most famous Deputy US Marshal in America.
- Elmore Leonard
