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Old 05-09-2020, 11:22 AM   #4305
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I have since read and really really liked The Hot Country. I've also read a couple of the later titles, which are also good, but not as good as this one IMO.

And, it has now dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK. It's also part of KU in the UK if you have a subscription to that and just want to try it.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00OFI6GQ0

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A US war correspondent is plunged into the Mexican civil war in “a whip-smart tale of intrigue and espionage” by the Pulitzer Prize winner (CNN.com).

Undaunted by enemy territory and sweltering heat, American journalist Christopher “Kit” Marlowe Cobb has arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1914. The country is rocked by civil war, the American invasion of Vera Cruz, and the controversial presidency of Victoriano Huerta, El Chacal (The Jackal).

Marlowe thinks he’s found his first big headline in the attempted assassination of a priest—the bullet miraculously rebounding off the holy man’s cross. Employing a young pickpocket to help him identify the sniper, Cobb is soon led into a far more dangerous story: German officials, with ammunition ships docked in the port, are showing up in the city. When Cobb falls for a young Mexican laundress, he believes he’s found a soft respite from hard news. If only she were as innocent as she seems.


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Three titles on sale for a bit more than I usually like to purchase at, but the first two are titles by authors whose books rarely go on sale, and the other is set in such an interesting time period that I'm probably going to buy it, especially since I have a yen for historical mysteries...

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The Hot Country is the first in the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series by Robert Olen Butler. It has gone on sale for $3.91 at Kindle US. I'm usually reluctant to spend that much on a new-to-me author, and on a book that calls itself a thriller rather than the mystery, but the setting/timing (Mexican civil war, during US invasion of Vera Cruz, in the run-up to WWI) make this sound pretty intriguing to me. So I'm probably going to buy this one...
link: https://www.amazon.com/Country-Chris...dp/B008DYIGR4/
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