The Hot Kid is a novel by Elmore Leonard. Elmore John Leonard Jr. ...
It is set in The Great Depression and follows the career of Carl (Carlos) Webster, a crack shot who kills his first criminal after seeing him shoot down a friend in the drug store of his small town. It follows his career as he begins a long dance of death with Jack Belmont, spoiled and rotten to the core son of a rich oil baron in Oklahoma.
The novel is full of the spare but dead on depictions of scenes and characters that are typical of the author.
Thus begins The HotKid, Elmore Leonard's latest, and with those dry-as-dust, matter-of-fact words, we're off once again into ElmoreLand, a bold and colorful place where men are men, women are women, and the good guys and the bad guys are damn hard to tell apart sometimes.
Even on those rare occasions when his characters don't have much to say (as is the case for laidback lawman Carl Webster, the "hotkid" of this book's title) their silence speaks louder and reverberates longer than many authors' best dialogue.
The HotKid is also not the sort of novel to have you hanging on the edge of your seat, wondering what will happen next.
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