Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller (3 books in series)
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review 1: Robert Olen Butler's first Kit Marlowe thriller, The Hot Country, absolutely rocked me. Here was a highly literate and respected literary writer( a la Graham Greene) writing in my favorite genre. By the way, Butler's Pulitzer Prize winning book of short stories is worthy of the a...
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review 1: Robert Olen Butler is a Pulitzer winning literary writer who in The Hot Country turns his talents to historical crime fiction. The result, for me at least, is a story that has the prose, pace and reflective aspects of literary fiction, but lacks the tightness, edge and intrigue ...
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review 1: While Butler seems to be channeling both Graham Greene and John Le Carre at the outset, this story gradually becomes a real barn-burner. Absolutely devoured the last 100 pages. The combination of an extremely interesting period in American history (one I know little about, incide...