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The "Hot Kid" of the U.S. Marshals Service, Carl Webster maintains the law with a cool, showdown attitude. He's one of the richest creations in Elmore Leonard's half century of delivering the goods. From his appearances in the critically acclaimed novels The Hot Kid and Up in Honey's Room, Carl returns to lay down the law in a novella that originally appeared as a serial in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
The title novella—plus two Carl Webster short stories—traces Carl's career from his run-in with 1930's gangsters to his investigation of a murder at a German POW camp in Oklahoma. This time it's Carl against war-seasoned Afrika Korps Nazis. With its pitch-perfect dialogue, compelling characters, and classic charm, Comfort to the Enemy is vintage Leonard.
About the Author
Elmore Leonard has written forty-five books during his highly successful writing career, and many of his novels have been made into movies. Leonard is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Bloomfield Village, Michigan.
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3.8 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good writing; Disingenuous publishing, Nov 4 2010
By seadog - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Comfort To The Enemy And Other Carl Webster Stories (Paperback)
The writing in this collection is typical Elmore Leonard: great. I would give this review five stars for the stories. But the packaging is misleading to the point of being almost fraudulent. The cover says "First time published in the U.S," and that the collection includes Comfort to the Enemy and "other Carl Weber stories." The two "stories" are not new Carl Webster stories: they are chapters out of Leonard's novel "The Hot Kid." Moreover, the novella included in this collection, "Comfort to the Enemy," was published serially in the New York Times Sunday Magazine back in 2005. And it is still available online. (Apparently, this collection was originally published in England, and it still retains English punctuation - single quotation marks, absence of periods from abbreviations, etc.)The novella is well-worth reading, and some may feel it's worth the price of a trade paperback novel or collection. The story takes place in the time between the events of Leonard's Carl Webster novels, "The Hot Kid" and "Up in Honey's Room". It concerns events surrounding the break out of two German POWs referred to in the latter novel, and includes characters from the former. In that sense, it is a great companion piece to the novels, much the same way his stories "Chickasaw Charlie Hoke" fits into scenes referenced in "Tishomingo Blues," and "Karen Makes Out" elaborates events referred to in "Out of Sight."
So I would not discourage anyone from buying this book. Just know that you are not buying three new Carl Webster stories.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hot, Feb 11 2011
By Stephen T. Hopkins - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Comfort To The Enemy And Other Carl Webster Stories (Paperback)
The character Carl Webster is one of the finest created by Elmore Leonard. This U.S. Marshall was known as "The Hot Kid," and he behaves with cool competence in all situations. Readers who want to sample Leonard's writing in a small dose will find Comfort to the Enemy to be an enjoyable introduction. While I prefer Leonard's novels to his shorter fiction, this novella and story collection provides enjoyable reading entertainment.Rating: Three-star (Recommended)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nice Introduction to Leonard's Work, Which Seems More Promising Than This Collection, Oct 29 2010
By Dabby Cool "dabby" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Comfort To The Enemy And Other Carl Webster Stories (Paperback)
Thanks to the publisher and goodreads for the advanced reading copy.Comfort to the Enemy is a collection of two short stories and the eponymous novella starring Carl Webster. The two short stories, "Showdown at Checotah" and "Louly and Pretty Boy" also appear in the book, The Hot Kid.
I've known about Elmore Leonard, having seen the movies Get Shorty and Out of Sight and having loved the tv show Justified. But I never got around to reading his work until now.
As expected, Leonard's got style and every character is just cool, cool, cool. Carl Webster reminds me of Raylan Givens of a different era.
I preferred the two short stories over the novella, as I like the cowboy marshal hunting down or meeting bank robbers more so than solving a murder revolving around Nazis. A lot of the mystery solving also involved longer-than-usual and therefore less-spunky dialogue, which diluted what was supposed to be Leonard's forte.
I'm not sure if this collection is meant to satiate existing fans of Carl Webster or to entice new readers to read the Carl Webster novels The Hot Kid and Up in Honey's Room. As a new reader, I'd say this book successfully piqued my interest in Leonard's other books, even if the novella contained herein was less than perfect.
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