Up In Honey's Room
Sequel to The Hot Kid
by Elmore Leonard
The Hot Kid is back and more fun than ever. In this new Elmore Leonard novel, which takes place in the final days
of World War II, Marshal Carl Webster is looking for Jurgen Schrenk, a former German Afrika Korps Nazi officer who
escaped from a POW camp in Oklahoma along with a Waffen-SS major named Otto. He's pretty sure that Walter Schoen,
a Detroit butcher, is a German spy and is hiding Jurgen. Walter looks exactly like Heinrich Himmler, and
co-incidentally, they share the same birthday, and were even born in the same hospital. Walter is sure that he
and Himmler are twin brothers and brags about it constantly.
Carl is hoping that Honey Deal, who is Walter's ex-wife, will lead him to Walter and Jurgen. Honey likes the
hot kid marshal, and is very interested in developing a relationship with him. She doesn't much care that he's a
happily married man, but all Carl wants is to capture Jurgen without getting shot. Enter Vera Mezwa, the classy
Ukranian spy who is prettier than Mata Hari. She has a lover named Bohdan, with a Buster Brown haircut. He's a
faux transvestite who frequently dresses in beautiful women's clothes and has no qualms about killing.
If you are an Elmore Leonard fan, you know what to expect -a story that is funny with tough, uncompromising
realism that is full of surprises. Leonard is unequaled in the ability to produce realistic dialogue and plots
that keep his heroes in hot water. He always treats his fans to a very entertaining story, and while there is
plenty of action, it's mainly the characters that kept me reading. They are all interesting, quirky, and colorful.
Leonard doesn't usually do sequels, so this novel with Carl Webster as one of the main characters is a bit
unexpected. I would really like to see more of some of the great characters he has developed over the years.
I'm really addicted to Elmore Leonard stories. Read this one, and you will be too.
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The Book |
William Morrow /HarperCollins |
May 8, 2007 |
Hardback |
0060724242
978-0060724245 |
Historical detective (hardboiled) [WW II Oklahoma] |
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Excerpt |
NOTE: Sequel to The Hot Kid, also reviewed
on Myshelf |
The Reviewer |
Beverly J. Rowe |
Reviewed 2007 |
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