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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.
1 de ene. de 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.
THE HOT KID (edición en inglés) ELMORE LEONARD. HARPERCOLLINS PUB. - 9780060724238. Escribe tu opinión. Literatura en inglés. Sinopsis de THE HOT KID. Carlos Webster was fifteen in the fall of 1921 the first time he came face-to-face with a nationally known criminal.
8 de may. de 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...
10 de may. de 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.
The Hot Kid combines Leonard’s interests in crime, Westerns, and historical fiction and represents his best work since Out of Sight (1996). The Hot Kid opens in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, in 1921,...
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.
