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Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories
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Publisher's summary
The "Hot Kid" of the U.S. Marshals Service, Carl Webster maintains the law with a cool, showdown attitude. He's one of the richest creations in Elmore Leonard's half century of delivering the goods. From his appearances in the critically acclaimed novels The Hot Kid and Up in Honey's Room, Carl returns to lay down the law in a novella that originally appeared as a serial in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
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The hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again--that's where Matthew Scudder comes in.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good introduction to a popular series
- By Sharron on 12-26-11
By: Lawrence Block
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Red Means Run
- By: Brad Smith
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Accolades for Brad Smith’s celebrated crime novels include a nomination for the coveted Dashiell Hammett Prize. In Smith’s novel Red Means Run, prominent attorney Mickey Dupree is found dead at Burr Oak Golf and Country Club. On record as hating Mickey, small-time rancher Virgil Cain quickly becomes the prime suspect. Virgil knows the fix is in—so he sets out to find the real killer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Starts slow, but worth getting your teeth into
- By Kate Matthews on 10-02-12
By: Brad Smith
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Dead Irish
- Dismas Hardy, Book 1
- By: John Lescroart
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 1,147
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 931
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 929
In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss - but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and a round of darts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Soap-opera thrillers?
- By Snoodely on 01-27-10
By: John Lescroart
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Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,311
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,830
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,819
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beware of Mysterious Sexy Women with Big Suitcases
- By Jefferson on 02-13-11
By: Walter Mosley
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The Last Detail
- A Novel
- By: Darryl Ponicsan
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Unlike other branches of the armed services, the Navy draws its police force from the ranks as temporary duty - Shore Patrol. In this funny, bawdy, moving audiobook set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, Virginia - Billy "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Mule Mulhall - are assigned to escort 18-year-old Larry Meadows from Norfolk to the brig in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is to serve an eight-year sentence for petty theft. It's good duty, until the two old salts realize the injustice of the sentence and are oddly affected by the naive innocence of their young prisoner.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprising ending
- By bella on 09-11-20
By: Darryl Ponicsan
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The Deep Blue Good-By
- A Travis McGee Novel, Book 1
- By: John D. MacDonald
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,830
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4,280
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,287
He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Before the A-Team, there was Travis McGee
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-12-16
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The Blight Way
- A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery
- By: Patrick F. McManus
- Narrated by: Charles Leggett
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,286
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,024
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,026
Bo Tully is the sheriff of Blight County, Idaho, where law enforcement is usually pretty mundane: tracking down truants running away from school, picking up country boys who've had a few too many beers. But Tully gets a little more than the country norm when an ex-con calls with the startling news that there's a corpse draped across one of his fences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lots of fun and no bad language
- By Share on 02-26-10
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The Hour I First Believed
- A Novel
- By: Wally Lamb
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 25 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,215
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 854
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 856
When high-school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent all around yarn
- By G. on 01-10-09
By: Wally Lamb
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Signals: New and Selected Stories
- By: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with 12 new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfection! Amazing writer/amazing reader
- By Monique on 01-08-19
By: Tim Gautreaux
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The Fallen
- By: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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My life was ordinary until three years ago when I was thrown out of a downtown hotel window. My name is Robbie Brownlaw, and I am a homicide detective for the city of San Diego. I am 29 years old. I now have synesthesia, a neurological condition where your senses get mixed up. Sometimes when people talk to me, I see their voices as colored shapes provoked by the emotions of the speakers, not by the words themselves. I have what amounts to a primitive lie detector.
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2 out of 5 stars
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OK, but...
- By Robert E. Orlando on 01-01-14
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
- By: George V. Higgins
- Narrated by: Mark Hammer
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 445
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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George V. Higgins, the internationally-acclaimed grand master of crime fiction, returns to thrill listeners with this riveting tale of cops, robbers, and big city low life. An expertly crafted story of loyalty and betrayal, it is peppered with wonderfully authentic dialogue and seedy black market atmosphere. Eddie Coyle is a small-time gun dealer with a big-time problem: who to sell out to avoid going to prison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Narration meets Fantastic Dialogue
- By Roy Reiss on 06-18-12
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Cop Hater
- 87th Precinct Series, Book 1
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 467
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 414
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 411
When a sniper begins gunning down cops from the 87th Precinct in cold blood, it’s up to Detective Steve Carella to solve the case. With three cops already dead, Carella delves into the city’s underworld to search for the killer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dang, it's about time for the 87th Precinct
- By Eric J. Toll on 05-17-14
By: Ed McBain
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Baltimore Blues
- Tess Monaghan, Book 1
- By: Laura Lippman
- Narrated by: Deborah Hazlett
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,489
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,191
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,183
Unemployed at 29, Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent—including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety—and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancée—make the case front page news...and point to Rock as the likely murderer. But trying to prove her friend's innocence could prove costly to Tess.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'm on #8 - This series is almost unique
- By connie on 02-19-12
By: Laura Lippman
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Above the Law
- By: J.F. Freedman
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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In a remote northern California town, a huge task force from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration conducts a raid on the stronghold of one of the biggest drug-dealing rings in the country. During the raid, the infamous, reclusive leader of the ring, Reynaldo Juarez, is shot and killed - despite direct orders from the Attorney General that he is to be taken alive at any cost because of his immense value to the government as a witness in other drug cases.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Book great ending
- By shelley on 04-10-14
By: J.F. Freedman
What listeners say about Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories
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- longrider
- 05-28-12
Why are you whispering?
I did enjoy the stories. Leonard is consistantly engrosing. Clark is an excellent narrator, but his voice is too hushed. I couldn't raise the volume on my iPod loud enough to listen in a public setting. However, I do recommend this listen as long as you are listening at home.
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- Dave
- 11-22-12
The Only Problem?
It's not long enough! Leonard's tales of Carl Webster never are. a great read from Josh Clark as well. Highly recommended.
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- Vales Tales
- 06-21-23
Another Great Book By Dutch Leonard
I thought this little collection with the title novella as its showpiece was superb. A great period piece set in that Leonard sweet-spot between his Westerns and more modern crime novels, this one set in early 20th century and has the origin story of “The Hot Kid”, Carl Webster.
Vintage Leonard in every way and well read by Josh Clark. I like how he does voices of different characters.
Highly recommended
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- Mommaluke
- 09-16-15
Perfect narrator for Westerns
What made the experience of listening to Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories the most enjoyable?
Josh Clark narration.
What other book might you compare Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories to and why?
Forty Lashes Less One - another Elmore Leonard Western. I've listened a few times all the way through, and it never seems to get old, just funnier!
What does Josh Clark bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
His reading of the character dialogue is epic. Extremely talented.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Made me laugh out loud a bunch of times.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Dangereuse
- 02-14-23
Too Funny..great characters
Elmore Leonard develops his characters by their actions, conversations, clothing, small but telling details. This book of short stories is a continuous narrative with a minimum of introspection , violence that we know is deserved, and good humour throughout
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Tom
- 12-04-10
Some bad decisions
I was very disappointed in this book. I was expecting some new Carl Webster stories and instead I am hearing shorter versions of three other books that I already own.
The narrator is not as fitting as the narrator on the original books. If Mr. Leonard wanted to put out this book he should have used his original narrator or just cut in snippets from the original books
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