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Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller Ser.: The Hot Country by Robert Olen Butler (2
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Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802120466
ISBN-13
9780802120465
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114137680
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hot Country
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Historical, Thrillers / Suspense
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
20.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Reviews
"This high-spirited adventure by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler is an antic concoction of genre clichés, literary sendups, personal homages, fanciful history and passages of great writing."-- New York Times Book Review "It's an exciting story, much of it based on fact, and Butler has a good time with it. His writing is both crisp and thoughtful, his people ring true and he offers an amusing portrait of a golden age in journalism. . . . The Hot Country is a thinking person's thriller, the kind of exotic adventure that, in better days, would have been filmed by Sam Peckinpah."-- Washington Post "Butler takes an often-overlooked chapter of history and turns it into a whip-smart tale of intrigue and espionage."--CNN.com "A high-spirited adventure."-- Charlotte Observer "Enjoyable novel that should attract devotees of espionage and historical fiction."-- Library Journal "A fine stylist, Butler renders the time and place in perfect detail."-- Publishers Weekly "An awfully good read."--Criminal Intent "[ The Hot Country is] Robert Olen Butler's fast-paced entrée into adventure tales. Add a little Indiana Jones and you get the picture: a smart guy also handy with his fists and firearms, burdened with a dedication to finding out the truth."-- Plaza de Armas "Pancho Villa, fiery senoritas, and Germans up to no good--Robert Olen Butler is having fun in The Hot Country and readers will too. An intelligent entertainment with colorful history."--Joseph Kanon, New York Times bestselling author of The Good German and Istanbul Passage " The Hot Country is a spirited and beautifully told tale of adventure and intrigue in the grand old style, rich in both insight and atmosphere. Going off to war with Kit Cobb is as bracing and fun as it used to be in George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman books, or in Perez-Reverte's Captain Alatriste novels. And the best part is that there are more to come. Saddle up."--Dan Fesperman, Hammett award-winning author of The Double Game, "This high-spirited adventure by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler is an antic concoction of genre clichs, literary sendups, personal homages, fanciful history and passages of great writing."-- New York Times Book Review "It's an exciting story, much of it based on fact, and Butler has a good time with it. His writing is both crisp and thoughtful, his people ring true and he offers an amusing portrait of a golden age in journalism. . . . The Hot Country is a thinking person's thriller, the kind of exotic adventure that, in better days, would have been filmed by Sam Peckinpah."-- Washington Post "Butler takes an often-overlooked chapter of history and turns it into a whip-smart tale of intrigue and espionage."--CNN.com "A high-spirited adventure."-- Charlotte Observer "Enjoyable novel that should attract devotees of espionage and historical fiction."-- Library Journal "A fine stylist, Butler renders the time and place in perfect detail."-- Publishers Weekly "An awfully good read."--Criminal Intent "[ The Hot Country is] Robert Olen Butler's fast-paced entre into adventure tales. Add a little Indiana Jones and you get the picture: a smart guy also handy with his fists and firearms, burdened with a dedication to finding out the truth."-- Plaza de Armas "Pancho Villa, fiery senoritas, and Germans up to no good--Robert Olen Butler is having fun in The Hot Country and readers will too. An intelligent entertainment with colorful history."--Joseph Kanon, New York Times bestselling author of The Good German and Istanbul Passage " The Hot Country is a spirited and beautifully told tale of adventure and intrigue in the grand old style, rich in both insight and atmosphere. Going off to war with Kit Cobb is as bracing and fun as it used to be in George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman books, or in Perez-Reverte's Captain Alatriste novels. And the best part is that there are more to come. Saddle up."--Dan Fesperman, Hammett award-winning author of The Double Game, "This high-spirited adventure by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler is an antic concoction of genre clichés, literary sendups, personal homages, fanciful history and passages of great writing." — The New York Times Book Review "It's an exciting story, much of it based on fact, and Butler has a good time with it. His writing is both crisp and thoughtful, his people ring true and he offers an amusing portrait of a golden age in journalism.... The Hot Country is a thinking person's thriller, the kind of exotic adventure that, in better days, would have been filmed by Sam Peckinpah." — The Washington Post "Butler takes an often-overlooked chapter of history and turns it into a whip-smart tale of intrigue and espionage." —CNN.com Enjoyable novel that should attract devotees of espionage and historical fiction." — Library Journal A fine stylist, Butler renders the time and place in perfect detail." — Publishers Weekly "An awfully good read." —Criminal Intent "[ The Hot Country is] Robert Olen Butler's fast-paced entrée into adventure tales. Add a little Indiana Jones and you get the picture: a smart guy also handy with his fists and firearms, burdened with a dedication to finding out the truth." —Plaza de Armas Ray Chase's characterization of journalist Christopher Marlowe Cobb sublimely captures his transition from war correspondent ... to undercover operative." —AudioFile Pancho Villa, fiery senoritas, and Germans up to no good-- Robert Olen Butler is having fun in The Hot Country and readers will too. An intelligent entertainment with colorful history." —Joseph Kanon, New York Times bestselling author of The Good German and Istanbul Passage The Hot Country is a spirited and beautifully told tale of adventure and intrigue in the grand old style, rich in both insight and atmosphere. Going off to war with Kit Cobb is as bracing and fun as it used to be in George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman books, or in Perez-Reverte's Captain Alatriste novels. And the best part is that there are more to come. Saddle up." —Dan Fesperman, Hammett award-winning author of The Double Game, "This high-spirited adventure by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler is an antic concoction of genre clichés, literary sendups, personal homages, fanciful history and passages of great writing."— New York Times Book Review "It's an exciting story, much of it based on fact, and Butler has a good time with it. His writing is both crisp and thoughtful, his people ring true and he offers an amusing portrait of a golden age in journalism. . . . The Hot Country is a thinking person's thriller, the kind of exotic adventure that, in better days, would have been filmed by Sam Peckinpah."— Washington Post "Butler takes an often-overlooked chapter of history and turns it into a whip-smart tale of intrigue and espionage."—CNN.com A high-spirited adventure."— Charlotte Observer Enjoyable novel that should attract devotees of espionage and historical fiction."— Library Journal A fine stylist, Butler renders the time and place in perfect detail."— Publishers Weekly "An awfully good read."—Criminal Intent "[ The Hot Country is] Robert Olen Butler's fast-paced entrée into adventure tales. Add a little Indiana Jones and you get the picture: a smart guy also handy with his fists and firearms, burdened with a dedication to finding out the truth."— Plaza de Armas Pancho Villa, fiery senoritas, and Germans up to no good—Robert Olen Butler is having fun in The Hot Country and readers will too. An intelligent entertainment with colorful history."—Joseph Kanon, New York Times bestselling author of The Good German and Istanbul Passage The Hot Country is a spirited and beautifully told tale of adventure and intrigue in the grand old style, rich in both insight and atmosphere. Going off to war with Kit Cobb is as bracing and fun as it used to be in George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman books, or in Perez-Reverte's Captain Alatriste novels. And the best part is that there are more to come. Saddle up."—Dan Fesperman, Hammett award-winning author of The Double Game, "This high-spirited adventure by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler is an antic concoction of genre clichés, literary sendups, personal homages, fanciful history and passages of great writing." -- The New York Times Book Review "It's an exciting story, much of it based on fact, and Butler has a good time with it. His writing is both crisp and thoughtful, his people ring true and he offers an amusing portrait of a golden age in journalism.... The Hot Country is a thinking person's thriller, the kind of exotic adventure that, in better days, would have been filmed by Sam Peckinpah." -- The Washington Post "Butler takes an often-overlooked chapter of history and turns it into a whip-smart tale of intrigue and espionage." --CNN.com "Enjoyable novel that should attract devotees of espionage and historical fiction." -- Library Journal "A fine stylist, Butler renders the time and place in perfect detail." -- Publishers Weekly "An awfully good read." --Criminal Intent "[ The Hot Country is] Robert Olen Butler's fast-paced entrée into adventure tales. Add a little Indiana Jones and you get the picture: a smart guy also handy with his fists and firearms, burdened with a dedication to finding out the truth." --Plaza de Armas "Ray Chase's characterization of journalist Christopher Marlowe Cobb sublimely captures his transition from war correspondent ... to undercover operative." --AudioFile "Pancho Villa, fiery senoritas, and Germans up to no good-- Robert Olen Butler is having fun in The Hot Country and readers will too. An intelligent entertainment with colorful history." --Joseph Kanon, New York Times bestselling author of The Good German and Istanbul Passage " The Hot Country is a spirited and beautifully told tale of adventure and intrigue in the grand old style, rich in both insight and atmosphere. Going off to war with Kit Cobb is as bracing and fun as it used to be in George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman books, or in Perez-Reverte's Captain Alatriste novels. And the best part is that there are more to come. Saddle up." --Dan Fesperman, Hammett award-winning author of The Double Game
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
1
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
"The Hot Country" is an epic tale of war, love, and espionage. Christopher Marlowe Cobb is an American newspaper war correspondent who travels to Mexico in 1914 to report on the country's civil war, the invasion of Vera Cruz, and the controversial presidency of Victoriano Huerta, El Chacal (The Jackal). Covering the war in enemy territory and swelt, In The Hot Country , Christopher Marlowe Cobb ("Kit"), the swashbuckling early 20th century American newspaper war correspondent travels to Mexico in April and May of 1914, during that country's civil war, the American invasion of Vera Cruz and the controversial presidency of Victoriano Huerta, El Chacal (The Jackal). Covering the war in enemy territory and sweltering heat, Cobb falls in love with Luisa, a young Mexican laundress, who is not as innocent as she seems. The intrepid war reporter soon witnesses a priest being shot. The bullet rebounds on the cross the holly man wears around his neck and leaves him unharmed. Cobb employs a young pickpocket to help him find out the identity of the sniper and, more importantly, why important German officials are coming into the city in the middle of the night from ammunition ships docked in the port. An exciting tale of intrigue and espionage, Butler's powerful crime-fiction debut is a thriller not to be missed., "The Hot Country" is an epic tale of war, love, and espionage. Christopher Marlowe Cobb is an American newspaper war correspondent who travels to Mexico in 1914 to report on the country's civil war, the invasion of Vera Cruz, and the controversial presidency of Victoriano Huerta, El Chacal (The Jackal). Covering the war in enemy territory and sweltering heat, Cobb falls in love with Luisa, a beautiful Mexican laundress, who is not as innocent as she seems. Upon investigating a German ammunition ship docked in the marina, Cobb finds himself fired upon by unknown assailants, then witnesses a priest being shot with marksman-like precision. Cobb employs a young pickpocket to help him find out the identity of the sniper and, more importantly, why important German officials are coming into the city in the middle of the night from that very ship docked in the port. Soon Cobb finds himself wrapped up in a web of secrets that could change the the fate of the fate of myriad world leaders, redefine the destiny of two continents, and end his life at any moment. An action-packed chronicle of passion and war, Butler's powerful crime-fiction debut is a thriller not to be missed.
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