A two-year wait is a long time for a fan of Elmore Leonard, especially when rumors claim his next book will be a sequel to his last novel, “The Hot Kid.” Perhaps the wait for that sequel, “Up In Honey’s Room,” was too long a wait. Maybe there was a little too much anticipation. Maybe “The Hot Kid” was just a little too good, making it a little too hard to make an equally good sequel. “The Hot Kid” followed the rise of fictional Marshal Carl Webster from his hard-scrabble youth to his becoming a gun-slinging law officer in the free-wheeling gangster days of the 1930s. “The Hot Kid” was full of action, full of likable and unlikable characters with interesting relationships between each other, and chock full of the scintillating, dark-humor dialogue that has made Elmore Leonard a must-read for many fans for the past few decades. “The Hot Kid” was a masterful and fun crime novel by a master writer at the top of his game. So, “Up In Honey’s Room” had a tough act to follow. Here, Leonard reunites readers with Carl Webster about 10 years later, near the end of World War II. Webster spends his marshal duties here chasing escaped Nazi prisoners of war and glum Nazi spies who sense the Third Reich’s end is near. Louly, Carl’s sure-shot love from “The Hot Kid,” is now his wife but is out of the picture as she is training Marines for battle. Instead, Carl must deal with the temptations of Honey, an all-American girl now divorced from a pro-Nazi German-American who believes he is Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler’s lost twin brother. Throw into the mix a beautiful spy and her murderous lover who has a thing for women’s dresses to go with his Buster Brown haircut, and you have all of the elements readers have come to expect from an Elmore Leonard novel. The only problem: Nothing seems to happen. There’s a lot of Leonard dialogue. There’s a lot of great set-ups. There are interesting characters. But nothing much happens with them. Still, Leonard fans will want to check this latest book out. Don’t expect as good as “The Hot Kid,” but Elmore Leonard a little off his game is better than many writers at top form.