The Hot Country : A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller (CD-Audio)

from picardyrose

Newspaperman discovers a plot re the Germans supplying arms to the banditos.

from atticusfinch1048

The Hot Country - Great Historical Adventure The Hot Country by Robert Olen Butler is another Christopher Marlow Cobb "thriller" which according to The Washington Post is 'A thinking person's historical thriller' and part of the literary thriller genre. Never have literary thrillers actually been...

from ninnytendo

Christopher Marlowe "Kit" Cobb is a Chicago reporter who goes to Veracuz to report on the Mexican civil war. As part of his investigation he ends up chasing German agent Friedrich von Mensinger, which leads him to Pancho Villa's camp and his side of the revolution. The story has potential to be e...

from dianaleez

It's a western! Make of that what you like.

from maneekuhi

The "Hot Country" is quite an exciting story, by Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler. The protagonist and narrator is Christopher Cobb Marlowe, a reporter for a Chicago newspaper. Veracruz Mexico, 1914. Bandits rule Mexico and fight each other for control of the country and the Presi...