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James Lee Burke Bitterroot
Pocket 1-May-02 0743411439 / 9780743411431 Paperback Good
0743411439 Small amounts of water damage. Amazon.com's Best of 2001 Ex-Texas Rangers are suckers for old friends in distress, so when Vietnam v et and recent widower Doc Voss calls lawyer Billy Bob Holland from Montana with an apparently innocent invitation to visit, Billy Bob packs up and """ "head[s] north with creel and fly rod in the foolish hope that somehow my o wn ghosts did not cross state lines."""" Doc has managed to alienate everyone in town, including mining interests on the Blackfoot River; a drug-running biker gang; an enclave of white suprem acists, led by slimy Carl Hinkel; the local mob connection, in the person o f an even slimier Nicki Molinari; and the feds, who don't want anything int erfering with their pursuit of both Hinkel and Molinari. After Doc's daught er is brutally raped by three of the bikers, and those three are murdered i n a particularly nasty fashion, Holland must try to clear his friend of sus picion. As he ferrets through a tangled web of coincidence and connection, Holland risks losing everything and everyone dear to him. The wild card in the pack is Wyatt Dixon, a psychopathic ex-con who holds H olland responsible for his sister's death, and who has followed him to Mont ana: """"[Wyatt] recycled pain, stored its memory, footnoted every instance of it in his life and the manner in which it had been visited upon him, th en paid back his enemies and tormentors in ways they never foresaw."""" James Lee Burke's prose alternately sparkles with a perverse insouciance (""""Lamar had gotten his. Big time. Soaked in paint thinner and flame-roasted from head to foot like a burned burrito."""") and glows with a
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