The Hot Country cover art

The Hot Country

Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Hot Country

By: Robert Olen Butler
Narrated by: Ray Chase
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

Christopher Marlowe Cobb ("Kit"), the swashbuckling early 20th-century American newspaper war correspondent, travels to Mexico in April and May of 1914, during that country’s civil war and the American invasion of Vera Cruz.

But covering the war in enemy territory and in sweltering heat isn't enough of a challenge for Cobb. Soon, he's falling in love with a young Mexican laundress, Luisa, who may not be as innocent as she seems, and he's witnessing the inexplicable attempted sniper assassination of a priest (miraculously, the bullet rebounds off the cross around his neck, leaving him unharmed). Now Cobb is also trying to track down a sniper - and figure out why important German officials are coming into the city in the middle of the night from ammunition ships docked in the port.

An exciting tale of intrigue and espionage, Butler’s powerful crime-fiction debut is a thriller not to be missed.

©2012 Robert Olen Butler. Recorded by arrangement with John Hawkins and Associates, Inc. (P)2012 HighBridge Company
Crime Thrillers Espionage Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Latin American War Mexico Sniper

Listeners also enjoyed...

A Girl in Time cover art
A Nail Through The Heart cover art
Winter's Edge cover art
The Bookseller cover art
The Year's Top Short SF Novels 7 cover art
A Single Spy cover art
Strong Convictions cover art
King of the Cracksmen cover art
A Strange and Bitter Fruit cover art
The Typist cover art
A Mortal Terror cover art
The Bastard cover art
Make Me No Grave cover art
Last Year cover art
The Tightrope Men cover art
The Good Germans cover art
No reviews yet