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Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories by Elmore Leonard

Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories

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Elmore Leonard

HarperCollins · Ebook · September 28, 2010

“An excellent read….Concrete evidence of a master crime writer still at the top of his game.” —Russel D. McLean, author of The Good Son “The reigning King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times), Elmore Leonard first introduced quick-triggered legendary lawman Carl Webster in the New York Times bestseller, The Hot Kid, and brought him back for an encore Up in Honey’s Room.

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Who it’s for
Three Carl Webster tales bring Elmore Leonard’s crime-writing snap to a compact, character-led read.
Themes
U.S. marshal protagonist
Genres
Mystery Anthologies, Short Stories (Single Author), Hard-Boiled Mystery

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“An excellent read….Concrete evidence of a master crime writer still at the top of his game.” —Russel D. McLean, author of The Good Son “The reigning King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times), Elmore Leonard first introduced quick-triggered legendary lawman Carl Webster in the New York Times bestseller, The Hot Kid, and brought him back for an encore Up in Honey’s Room.

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In Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories, the loose cannon U.S. marshal struts his stuff once more in three electrifying new tales. Comfort to the Enemy is more indisputable proof that Elmore Leonard is indeed, as Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island) puts it, “The greatest crime writer who ever lived.”

Crime in Three Acts

Three Carl Webster tales bring Elmore Leonard’s crime-writing snap to a compact, character-led read.

Come here for

  • A quick-triggered U.S. marshal with a loose-cannon streak
  • Hard-boiled crime fiction shaped by Leonard’s crisp, confident voice

Expect

  • Three new tales featuring Carl Webster
  • A sustained stretch of crime reading, without a single long narrative

Where it sits

Short Stories (Single Author)77%
Mystery Anthologies49%
Hard-Boiled Mystery38%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Action & Adventure
  • Mystery
  • Police Procedurals
  • Mystery Anthologies
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  • Historical Mystery
  • Short Stories (Single Author)
  • Suspense
Authors
Elmore Leonard
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
September 28, 2010
Format
Ebook
Theme
U.S. marshal protagonist
Reading lane
Action & Adventure