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The hot kid : a novel / Elmore Leonard.

by Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013.

William Morrow, c2005.

Police -- Oklahoma -- Fiction.

Brigands and robbers -- Fiction.

Outlaws -- Fiction.

Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.

Oklahoma -- Fiction.

9780060724221 (acid-free paper)

0060724226 (acid-free paper)

0060724234 (2006 HarperTorch pbk.)

312 p. ; 24 cm.

"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 during 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. Louly Brown loves Carl but wants the world to think she is Pretty Boy Floyd's girlfriend. Tony Antonelli of True Detective magazine wants to write like Richard Harding Davis and wishes cute little Elodie wasn't a whore. She and Heidi and the girls work at Teddy's in Kansas City, where anything goes and the girls wear -- what else -- teddies. 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 -- a true master -- at his best."--Inside jacket.

Historical fiction.

Suspense fiction.

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