A trio of short stories featuring legendary lawman Carl Webster - star of THE HOT KID.
1940s' Oklahoma. Germans in a stateside POW camp have murdered one of their own and US Marshal Carl Webster, back from a tour of duty in the Pacific, is called in to investigate. Among others, he comes across a Jewish gangster bent on revenge for the Holocaust; a rodeo bull rider turned lawman; and a former Nazi guard who is a persistent runaway.
Befriending the escapee, Carl becomes embroiled in a tale of gangsters' molls, enemy lines, espionage, double-crossing and a lovers' wartime promise that could to more trouble than he ever imagined...
| ISBN: | 9780753826652 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2010 |
| Author: | Elmore Leonard |
| Publisher: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 182 pages |
| Genres: |
Crime and Mystery Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction |