The Hot Country

Robert Olen Butler

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A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller

War correspondent Christopher Marlowe ‘Kit’ Cobb arrives in Vera Cruz, Mexico, to cover the country’s civil war. A passionate believer in the power of a free press and the moral superiority of the United States, Kit is no mere observer. He assumes a false identity to pursue German diplomat Friedrich von Mensinger en route to a meeting with revolutionary leader Pancho Villa, and the correspondent soon finds himself up to his neck in political intrigue. Along the way he’s nearly shot by a mysterious sniper, joins forces with a double agent and falls in love with a headstrong young Mexican woman who may be mixed up in the revolutionary plot.

Category: Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction

Paperback

RRP: £8.99

ISBN: 9781843445630

Published: November 27, 2014

Extent: 352 pages

Ebook

RRP: £4.99

ISBN: 9781843445647

Published: November 27, 2014

Reviews

The Hot Country draws on many elements of the traditional adventure yarn, including disguises, fist fights and foot races, double agents and alluring young women who may be honey traps or spies… though in prose that has been written with serious attention… this first report makes you want to read on into the war correspondent’s second edition

Mark Lawson , Guardian

‘Lately, I find myself drawn to literary thrillers: stories powered by a full-throttle narrative, driven by sharply drawn characters whose every turn has been carefully plotted’

Steven Jay Griffel , Thirsty

‘combines a fast-moving plot with characters of a complexity that is not always found in such fiction’

Nick Rennison , Sunday Times

‘a genuine and exhilarating success’

Russel D. McLean , Times Literary Supplement

Exciting story… 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

Patrick Anderson , Washington Post

Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and sixteen other novels including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

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