Article: A HOT TOPIC AFTER 39 NOVELS, ELMORE LEONARD PRODUCES A SIZZLING NEW STORY.(Spotlight)

Article: Leonard comes alive with renewed energy in `The Hot ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... fess up that "The Hot Kid" (Morrow; 312 pages ... Deputy U.S. Marshal Carl Webster - a rise that Leonard ... every character in "The Hot Kid" is trying to plug into ... over the course of "The Hot Kid," Leonard's writing ...

Article: A very 'hot kid,' indeed.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)
The Washington Times;  May 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... and all around bad guy. And in "The Hot Kid" - perhaps most pointedly to date ... life? Maybe. The basic plot is this. Carl Webster is a young guy who early in his life ... to clear the car's hood and Marshal Carl Webster,'" McMahon looked up again, his eyes ...

Article: 'Hot Kid' may be Leonard's best novel
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  May 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...THE HOT KID, by Elmore Leonard, William Morrow ... finished his 40th crime novel, "The Hot Kid," and it just may be his best ever ... them take the story where they want to. Carl Webster is a ridiculously young but potentially ...

Article: Five questions for author Elmore Leonard.(Everyday)
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO);  May 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... subjects and settings of "The Hot Kid," the cops and robbers of the ... same main character (as "The Hot Kid"), Carl Webster. In the new one, it is 1944 ... have purchased Leonard's "The Hot Kid" or any other of his hardcover ...

Article: ELMORE LEONARD reaches back for heat in Depression-era crime ...
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO);  May 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... never does. "The Hot Kid," the latest crime ... young U.S. marshal Carl Webster. It is set in the ... or a month, "The Hot Kid" starts with Carl Webster at age 15 in 1921 and ... and place. But "The Hot Kid" is Leonard's best ...

Article: CRIME FICTION
The Sunday Telegraph London;  September 9, 2007 ;     469 words ... ... Room by Elmore Leonard (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 12.99) is another episode in the life of The Hot Kid, Deputy Marshal Carl Webster. It's now 1944 and Carl is in pursuit of an escaped German prisoner of war, a former tank commander ...

Article: The old routines behind 'The Hot Kid'
International Herald Tribune;  May 17, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... stripped of artifice and adjectives. ''The Hot Kid,'' a just-released robbers-and ... Baptist'' and cotton farmer in ''The Hot Kid,'' got his name that way. ''Why ... almost every time he writes, and ''The Hot Kid,'' with its gun molls, strutting lawmen ...