A ‘Honey’ of a Tale

Here’s some exciting news for Elmore Leonard lovers: the now 81-year-old is due out next May with his 41st novel, Up in Honey’s Room. The site explains:

The novel is part of what could be called, “The Webster Saga.” The Webster in question is of course Carl Webster, the Hot Kid of the Marshal Service, who in the novel, The Hot Kid, becomes a legendary lawman going after Depression era bandits and the like.

Carl’s legend continued in Comfort to the Enemy, a serial novel published by the New York Times in 2005. In this story, Carl helped the government find escaped German POWs in Oklahoma, particularly at Deep Fork near his family home.

Now, in Up in Honey’s Room, Carl comes to Detroit to find a couple [of] escaped German POWs and finds first a degenerate Nazi spy ring and some hot women who are as dangerous as they are fun. Plenty of surprises in this book.

There’s a bit information to be found in the catalogue copy promoting Leonard’s forthcoming novel. You’ll find that here.

(Hat tip to Campaign for the American Reader.)