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In The Hot Country, Christopher Marlowe Cobb (“Kit”), the swashbuckling early 20th century American newspaper war correspondent travels to Mexico in April and May of 1914, during that country’s civil war, the American invasion of Vera Cruz and the controversial presidency of Victoriano Huerta, El Chacal (The Jackal). Covering the war in enemy territory and sweltering heat, Cobb falls in love with Luisa, a young Mexican laundress, who is not as innocent as she seems.
The intrepid war reporter soon witnesses a priest being shot. The bullet rebounds on the cross the holly man wears around his neck and leaves him unharmed. Cobb employs a young pickpocket to help him find out the identity of the sniper and, more importantly, why important German officials are coming into the city in the middle of the night from ammunition ships docked in the port.
An exciting tale of intrigue and espionage, Butler’s powerful crime-fiction debut is a thriller not to be missed.
- Sales Rank: #196586 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-10-02
- Released on: 2012-10-02
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Butler takes his first crack at crime fiction with this stylish historical thriller set in civil war–torn Mexico in 1914. Christopher Marlowe Cobb (call him “Kit”) is a newspaper war correspondent in search of action, so naturally he winds up in Vera Cruz just as the American navy is staging a very peculiar mini-invasion. Kit would like to get to the bottom of that, and he would also like to score an interview with Pancho Villa. Then there’s the matter of the Mexican woman who may be a laundress but may also be something very different—and with whom Kit has very definitely fallen in love. And let’s not forget the German entourage: What are they doing in Vera Cruz? Along the way to answering all those questions, Kit gets more directly involved in the fighting than he’d planned. (And so do we: Butler’s multipage, one-sentence description of a gun battle between Villa’s troops and the Federales is a virtuoso feat of breathless, high-energy descriptive prose.) The plot of this multistranded thriller is at times difficult to follow, but the character studies, sense of place, and mood are utterly gripping. The hard-bitten war correspondent is a staple of the thriller genre, of course, but Butler brings new depth and flair to the familiar figure; only Fowler in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American (1956) or perhaps Russell Cruz-Price, Kent Harrington’s dissolute journalist in Red Jungle (2005), comes close to Kit Marlowe for that irresistible mix of been-there-twice-seen-this-shit-before cynicism and its polar opposite, an unquenchable desire to see if the next card turned just might be something special. Reviewers feel that way, too, sometimes, but the card this book turns is definitely something special. --Bill Ott
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"This high-spirited adventure by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler is an antic concoction of genre clichés, literary sendups, personal homages, fanciful history and passages of great writing."—New York Times Book Review
"It's an exciting story, much of it based on fact, and Butler has a good time with it. His writing is both crisp and thoughtful, his people ring true and he offers an amusing portrait of a golden age in journalism. . . . 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."—Washington Post
"Butler takes an often-overlooked chapter of history and turns it into a whip-smart tale of intrigue and espionage."—CNN.com
“A high-spirited adventure.”—Charlotte Observer
“Enjoyable novel that should attract devotees of espionage and historical fiction.”—Library Journal
“A fine stylist, Butler renders the time and place in perfect detail.”—Publishers Weekly
"An awfully good read."—Criminal Intent
"[The Hot Country is] Robert Olen Butler’s fast-paced entrée into adventure tales. Add a little Indiana Jones and you get the picture: a smart guy also handy with his fists and firearms, burdened with a dedication to finding out the truth."—Plaza de Armas
“Pancho Villa, fiery senoritas, and Germans up to no good—Robert Olen Butler is having fun in The Hot Country and readers will too. An intelligent entertainment with colorful history.”—Joseph Kanon, New York Times bestselling author of The Good German and Istanbul Passage
“The Hot Country is a spirited and beautifully told tale of adventure and intrigue in the grand old style, rich in both insight and atmosphere. Going off to war with Kit Cobb is as bracing and fun as it used to be in George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman books, or in Perez-Reverte’s Captain Alatriste novels. And the best part is that there are more to come. Saddle up.”—Dan Fesperman, Hammett award-winning author of The Double Game
About the Author
Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of twelve novels, six story collections, and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. A recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he also won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and has received two Pushcart Prizes. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting, well written
By Wulfstan
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler certainly knows how to turn a phase, and he also does superb characterizations.
What's more, this is hardly the typical "swashbuckling thriller". It is more the "thinking mans Historical Investigative Reporter".
Christopher Marlowe Cobb ("Kit") is handsome, brave, and intelligent, and certainly able to hold his own in a back-alley brawl. But he's no James Bond. Readers looking for over the top "Perils of Pauline" type action thrillers should look elsewhere. Clive Cussler he ain't.
Which, even tho I enjoy an occasional action thriller by Cussler- is a Good Thing.
The novel also hits upon a little known and very misunderstood period of American history, what with Pancho Villa, the Mexican Revolution, and the runn-up to WWI.
Very well written.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Do it yourself Kit.
By Tanstaafl
Our hero, Christopher "Kit" Marlowe Cobb, a world traveling reporter, tells his own story in this mystery set in the Mexico of a century ago. What is interesting, and maddening, is that the reporter tells his story as a novelist with a thesaurus close at hand rather than as a reporter trained to get to the point.
The over descriptive, over long sentences slow down this "adventure" novel to a pace normally found in novels written by Eastern European novelists. While those have their place, and I often enjoy reading them, that doesn't fit the subject of this book by Robert Olen Butler.
Kit seems to see himself as a Hemingway type of guy before Hemingway really made the scene. He tries to be macho with the ladies and hides behind trees from the guys. He is supposedly world wise but is too dense too often about what's going on around him. Imagine knowing you are being watched; making a point of it, then forgetting to go back to it as the story goes on. That's bad enough, but the other person sitting there notices the same thing and also ignores it. Not likely in a mystery/adventure/spy novel. In fact, I nearly threw the book across the room at page 108 when more stuff just plain failed to make any sense at all.
Interspersed through the book, Christopher "Kit" Marlowe Cobb reveals some things about his mother that makes for some of the more interesting moments in the story. Unfortunately, too few of the pages are about her. Perhaps Butler chose the wrong family member to write a story. Or, maybe neither should have.
Far too often, the author makes use of that great literary gimmick of "coincidence" to move things along. For example, it seems that one person can be in two places at the same time. Since many authors use this device, it's particularly interesting that people had that ability in the pre-atomic age of a century ago.
Each such shortcut adds to a reader's tally of reasons to stop turning the pages until it reaches point where the book closes for the last time unfinished. While this on did not get to that tipping point, it came closer than I would have wished.
Amazingly (remember my reference to page 108?), at about page 216, and some pages following, I was reminded of the westerns of my youth. They were the type that made sure the stars never got killed, were able to fire thirty bullets from a six-shooter, and they always got the girls even though the audience were never shown what they actually did with them once they had them. In this instance, our hero, Christopher "Kit" Marlowe Cobb, becomes someone totally different in order for this book to get to page 217 and the sequel(s) to be published.
I am, at that point, not looking forward to page 324 (I looked ahead and my ARC edition has 326 pages.) When I reached that third multiple of 108, I was disappointed that I hadn't been disappointed. The last sentence on page 324 sealed the deal that I definitely will not read the next in the series.
One star is mandatory. Another for the history, the girls, and setting. The third because some of the other side characters were far more interesting than Christopher "Kit" Marlowe Cobb.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
The Hot Country: A slow sizzle that builds
By John Williamson
Picture this: It's the spring of 1914. Christopher Marlowe "Kit" Cobb, a reporter for a Chicago newspaper, is sent to the Gulf of Mexico port city of Vera Cruz to cover the invasion of Mexico that had been ordered by President Woodrow Wilson.
That is the basic plot behind The Hot Country, a historical fiction tale by author Robert Olen Butler, a Pulitzer Prize winner. And though the author skillfully paints a scenic picture of the area and the times, this is no travelogue or Baedeker guide of the region. Victoriano Huerta, known by many as El Chacal (The Jackal) was the Mexican president, and the country was involved in a bloody civil war. Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa had joined the rebellion against Huerta, and the activist was being supplied arms from the US.
World War I (the "Great War") has yet to begin, and Germany has a major presence in the port city, which includes a consulate that Kit Cobb, along with many of the other journalists, considers to be a virtual nest of spies. Kit had met Luisa Morales shortly before the Marines arrived in Vera Cruz, a lively señorita with whom he becomes quite intrigued. When a German ship appears in the Vera Cruz harbor, Kit hires a petty thief to keep a watchful eye on the ship. Cobb tells his tale as a first-person narrative, which adds to the reading of this tale.
A strange and somewhat mysterious German official gets off of the ship, and Cobb becomes curious as to what he might be up to. Our intrepid reporter begins to suspect Luisa as the sniper in the non-fatal shootings of a Mexican priest, an official who is collaborating with the Americans, and an American Marine.
We find an occasionally lethargic plot, stereotypes, minutiae that can slow things down, and run-on sentences that will leave the reader wondering where this story is going. But we also find a compelling atmosphere, an excitement that builds, a spunky señorita, political intrigue, cross (and double-cross), espionage, along with a mystery. As might be expected, author Butler has an expansive and unreserved vocabulary, which adds to the enjoyment of reading this tale.
Author Butler is a skilled craftsman when it comes to building a scenario, and for this reader, it was an enjoyable read. He has obviously researched the time and locations quite well, and it shows in this interesting new work. I was already somewhat familiar with the author from his previous works, such as his often-hilarious 1996 collection Tabloid Dreams, which came from the titles of bizarre articles in the supermarket tabloids. His 1993 Pulitzer Prize winning short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain was a title that I had indulged in the pleasure of reading years ago. Both of these have recently been re-released.
The Hot Country had this reader fluctuating for awhile. The story started as quite interesting, with enough of a background to make it good, as author Butler is a skilled literary stylist. There were points where it dipped as a result of the run-on sentences, but in retrospect they add to the human element of the narrative, which add up to make this an engrossing read, and as it appears to be listed as a "Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller," I am looking forward to the next one. It's sluggish in places, but the story develops gradually and methodically, a slow sizzle that builds.
4/21/2013
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