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| Title | : | Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories (Carl Webster #3) |
| Author | : | Elmore Leonard |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 182 pages |
| Published | : | September 28th 2010 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published 2009) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Detective |
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Paperback | Pages: 182 pages Rating: 3.79 | 502 Users | 62 Reviews
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“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.”
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| ISBN: | 0061735159 (ISBN13: 9780061735158) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Carl Webster #3 |
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Ratings: 3.79 From 502 Users | 62 ReviewsRate Containing Books Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories (Carl Webster #3)
This is a 3.5 star book, but as we all know, no half points on goodreads.this book has the comfort to the enemy novella and two other short stories about the life of Carl Webster. But the other two short stories are actually excerpts from the hot kid novel. So I was a bit disappointed that I had already read two of the three stories in here.But the third (and to be fair longest) story is Comfort to the enemy and is a story that takes place in the last day of WW II. all over america there are powI love Elmore Leonard's writing and this book did not disappoint. Good stories written in that tough, charming way that Leonard has perfected. It's full of characters you may already know and love from other Carl Webster stories.I won my copy through First Reads.
God Help Us ShowoffsThe one thing I really appreciate is the dialogue between all of the characters. Elmore Leonard develops his characters to be the working man. They and their flaws shine and jump off the page.Whether i enjoy the book or not I will continue reading his books just to act as voyeur and live vicariously through his stories.Good guys and bad guys the appeal is real.
Elmore Leonard is mostly known as a writer of crime fiction but he started his career writing westerns. The two short stories and the novella in Comfort To The Enemy center on Leonards character, Carl Webster are almost a hybrid of both genres...but with Nazis! Webster, AKA The Hot Kid, is a US Marshal from Oklahoma who tracks bank robbers during the Great Depression and escaped Nazi POWs during WWII. The novella is sort of a prequel to Up in Honeys Room, which I also enjoyed, while the two
Leonard is so prolific, it's hard for me to remember which of his stories I've read and which are new. I'm running out of new though, so I didn't mind (surprisingly) revisiting this. It's vintage Leonard. Carl Webster, his favorite recent protagonist, is maybe a little too cool and tough to give Leonard's best characters (and novels) a true run for their money, and Leonard is so enamored with him that his Webster stories don't have the fascinating and terrifying villains that mark Leonard's best
The worst Elmore Leonard audiobook ever. So sad that someone made the choice to get another narrator for the 3rd Carl Webster book. The first story was already in one of the Hot Kid books (#1) and the second story isnt worth reading, in my opinion. Sub-par Elmore writing, but still would have been ok with another narrator
Leonard left us with three books about the greatest United States Marshal, "The Hot Kid, Carl Webster. These tales take us back to the era of Bonnie and Clyde and Pretty Boy Floyd. It's the depression and the war years and out in the wild lands of Oklahoma, there's a kid grown up who believes in tracking down his man and bringing them to justice. He's also a helluva quick draw.The first two stories are reprised from "The Hot Kid," and tell the story of a young Carl Webster, all of fifteen years
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