The Hot Kid - Softcover

."..expertly crafted, deftly balanced." -- Houston Chronicle

"Smart writing about dumb crooks." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Clear, fast-paced and masterfully structured." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

Praise for MR.PARADISE:"The dialogue and the characters crackle ...MR. PARADISE is a perfect crime caper from a master." -- Detroit Free Press

."..expertly crafted, deftly balanced."--Houston Chronicle

."..delivers the goods in a top-notch amalgam of sagebrush western and mob drama."--Lexington Herald-Leader

"The HOT KID is Elmore Leonard- a master- at his best."--Oklahoma City Oklahoman

"His 40th crime novel --and he just keeps getting better and better. "--Deseret News

"Elmore Leonard unspools the definitive portrait of 1930s lowlife"--Boston Sunday Globe (Stephen King)

"There's nothing Elmore Leonard doesn't know about stylish writing, and THE HOT KID is him at his compressed best."--Detroit Free Press

Having made his name by killing notorious bank robber Emmet Long, twenty-one-year-old Carl Webster, the most famous Deputy U.S. Marshal in the country, embarks on a dangerous search for Jack Belmont, the blacksheep son of an oil millionaire who dreams of becoming Public Enemy Number One, in a thriller set against the backdrop of 1930s Oklahoma. (Suspense)