Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories
Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories
Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories
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Carl Webster is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 2005 with contributions by Elmore Leonard.
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The two short stories and novella that comprise this book, all starring US Marshall Carl Webster, have appeared elsewhere before. According to Leonard's site (elmoreleonard.com), “the two [short] stories, ‘Louly and Pretty Boy' and ‘Showdown at Chechotah' ...appear pretty much verbatim in ‘The Hot Kid.' (The bad guy's name is different.)” The novella, “Comfort to the Enemy,” was serialized in the New York Times Sunday Magazine in 2005.
But that takes nothing away from the stories. They are vintage Leonard. I have always liked the Webster stories, as I feel like they are a link between Leonard's modern crime stories and his earlier Western novels. The stories in this book are fun and display Leonard's trademark humor and perfect ear for dialogue.