Comfort To the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories

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Comfort To the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories

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Author: Elmore Leonard

Type: Paperback

ISBN: 9780753826652

Date: 1st April, 2010

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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  2. Crime And Mystery Fiction
  3. Hard-Boiled Crime, Noir Fiction

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A trio of short stories featuring legendary lawman Carl Webster - star of THE HOT KID. 1940s' Oklahoma. Germans in a stateside POW camp have murdered one of their own and US Marshal Carl Webster, back from a tour of duty in the Pacific, is called in to investigate. Among others, he comes across a Jewish gangster bent on revenge for the Holocaust; a rodeo bull rider turned lawman; and a former Nazi guard who is a persistent runaway. Befriending the escapee, Carl becomes embroiled in a tale of gangsters' molls, enemy lines, espionage, double-crossing and a lovers' wartime promise that could to more trouble than he ever imagined...

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