The Hot Kid (11)

The Hot Kid
Elmore Leonard

This is set in the 1930's when booze is illegal, the country is in depression and outlaws are robbing banks and shooting people everywhere. This is the story of U. S. Marshall Carl Webster, the Hot Kid, who at 28 has made a name for himself shooting wanted bad guys. It tells the story of some of his famous battles as told to a magazine reporter, while he is on the trail of Jack Belmont a 2 bit crook, son a wealthy oil man, whose ambition is to be a famous outlaw, public enemy number one.
This is a great story written in the ususal Leonard style that draws you into the characters and makes you interested in them and their motivations. This one seem to tell a story more than some of his novels, and I enjoyed it. The body count was high, but it is the same cast of low life people that make so many of Leonard's books interesting, just set in the wilds of Oklahoma during the Oil rush.