Comfort to the enemy and other Carl Webster tales
By: Elmore Leonard
Series: Carl Webster; Carl Webster
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780297856689; 9780297856696
Subjects: American Detective and mystery stories; Fiction
Description: "This is a dazzling collection of three Elmore Leonard stories of which the third and title story, 'Comfort to the Enemy' is a novella. The stories chart the beginning, middle and mature years of legendary lawman Carl Webster's career. The title story begins with the investigation of a murder at a German POW camp in Oklahoma. The bank robbers of the 1920s are gone. Carl has married Louly, who has joined the Marines, and he has also done a tour of duty. Oklahoma is full of POW camps with crewmen and grenadiers from the Afrika Krops. Jurgen Schrenk is a young captain who escapes with some frequency, a man well-liked by many of the native Oklahomans. He's fallen in love with a girl by the name of Shemane, a sexy beauty and gangster's moll who lives at home with her mother. Jurgen makes a successful escape with the help of Shemane, and Carl promises he'll help the lovers at the end of the war. But Jurgen may be a spy, and Carl may have to pursue him to Detroit, a place where Jurgen has lived and where arms are being manufactured"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Showdown at Checotah; title: Louly and Pretty Boy; title: Comfort to the enemy.