Elmore Leonard

The Hot Kid

Reading • Talk • Booksigning

In his 40th Novel Elmore Leonard Shows No Signs of Slowing Down.

Slick cars, speakeasies, bank robbers and shoot outs are the game in this vigorously entertaining new book from Elmore Leonard, the undisputed master of the crime novel. Set in Oklahoma during the 20s and 30s, The Hot Kid, Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals' service, is polite, respects his elders, and can shoot a man driving away in an Essex at four hundred yards. Carl works out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, federal courthouse during the 1930s, the period of America's most notorious bank robbers: Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson -- those guys.

Unlike Leonard’s previous works, where the stories take place over a short time span—two to three weeks at the most—The Hot Kid plays out over the course of thirteen years during one of the most exhilarating eras in our history—with one big war behind us and one still ahead, in a world of outlaws, flappers, gun molls and Prohibition..

Elmore Leonard has written forty books during his highly successful 50+ years writing career, including the bestsellers Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool, Get Shorty, and Rum Punch, and the critically acclaimed collection of short stories, When the Women Come Out to Dance. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Be Cool. He is the recipient of the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife, Christine, in Bloomfield Village, Michigan.

WORD FOR WORD is a Bryant Park lunchtime series presented in cooperation with Coliseum Books. Notable authors discuss their newest books at the Bryant Park Reading Room, alongside 42nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. Following the readings, the authors will sign books, for sale on site from Coliseum Books.

In case of rain, this event will be moved to the Coliseum Books Café.

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