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Roberta Butler Books

    Robert Olen Butler is a celebrated American author renowned for his profound explorations of the human psyche and distinctive narrative techniques. His stories often venture into evocative settings, delving into themes of identity, memory, and the search for meaning. Butler's prose is lauded for its lyrical quality and its ability to inhabit the interior lives of his characters, establishing him as a singular voice in contemporary American fiction.

    The Hot Country
    Paris in the Dark

    • Paris in the Dark

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      Autumn 1915. The First World War is raging across Europe. Christopher Marlowe 'Kit' Cobb, a Chicago reporter and undercover agent for the US government, is in Paris when he meets an enigmatic nurse called Louise. Officially in the city for a story about American ambulance drivers, Cobb is grateful for the opportunity to get to know her. Soon his intelligence handler, James Polk Trask, extends his mission and he is active again. Parisians are meeting 'death by dynamite' in a new campaign of bombings, and the German-speaking Kit seems just the man to discover who is behind this.

      Paris in the Dark

    • The Hot Country

      • 346 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
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      Christopher Marlowe Cobb ('Kit'), the swashbuckling American newspaper war correspondent travels to Mexico in 1914, during that country's civil war, and the controversial presidency of Victoriano Huerta, El Chacal (The Jackal). Covering the war in enemy territory and in the sweltering heat, Cobb falls in love with Luisa, a young Mexican laundress, who is not as innocent as she seems. One day Kit witnesses a priest being shot, but the bullet ricochets off the cross he wears around his neck and leaves him unharmed. Cobb sets out to investigate the sniper.

      The Hot Country