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James Lee Burke Bitterroot
Pocket Books 0743411439 / 9780743411431 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Good
0743411439 Small amounts of water damage. n nAmazon's Best of 2001 n nEx-Texas Rangers are suckers for old friends in distress, so when Vietnam vet 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 own ghosts did not cross state lines. t n nDoc has managed to alienate everyone in town, including mining interests on the Blackfoot River; a drug-running biker gang; an enclave of white supremacists, led by slimy Carl Hinkel; the local mob connection, in the person of an even slimier Nicki Molinari; and the feds, who don't want anything interfering with their pursuit of both Hinkel and Molinari. After Doc's daughter is brutally raped by three of the bikers, and those three are murdered in a particularly nasty fashion, Holland must try to clear his friend of suspicion. As he ferrets through a tangled web of coincidence and connection, Holland risks losing everything and everyone dear to him. n nThe wild card in the pack is Wyatt Dixon, a psychopathic ex-con who holds Holland responsible for his sister's death, and who has followed him to Montana: [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, then paid back his enemies and tormentors in ways they never foresaw. n nJames 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 muted intensity (I closed the door and slipped the bolt and went back to sleep and hoped that the sun would rise on a better world for all of us.). The author's capacity to add depth to his characters with a few well-chosen phrases remains striking: the town sheriff walks heavily, like a man who knew his knowledge of the world would never have an influence upon it; a group of college boys is suntanned and hard-muscled, innocently secure in the knowledge that membership in a group of people such as themselves meant that age and mortality would never hold sway in their lives. n nIs the Billy Bob Holland series (three novels and counting) just Robicheaux Redux? The ex-Texas Ranger is, as either man might admit, the spittin' image of Dave Robicheaux, Burke's Louisiana PI: simultaneously rugged and rage-filled, chivalrous and callow, debonair and disturbing. And like the Robicheaux series, the Holland novels drift effortlessly among genres: regional writing, gritty noir, classic PI. You can cavil that Burke is repeating himself--or you can rejoice that Burke is continuing to enlarge his pool of intense, lyrical crime novels. Personally, I plump for the latter. --Kelly Flynn
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James Lee Burke In the Moon of Red Ponies: A Billy Bob Holland Novel (Billy Bob Boy Howdy)
Pocket Books 0743466640 / 9780743466646 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Very Good
0743466640 Editorial Reviews n nFrom Publishers Weekly nIn this top-notch fourth novel in Burke's series featuring ex-Texas Ranger attorney Billy Bob Holland, Billy Bob has moved his family and practice to the pastoral city of Missoula, Mont., the setting of his last adventure (Bitterroot, 2001), only to discover that the psychopathic ex-biker/rodeo clown, Wyatt Dixon (who buried Billy Bob's private investigator wife, Temple, alive), is out of prison on a technicality and claiming to be a born-again Christian. Billy Bob befriends alcoholic Desert Storm hero Johnny American Horse, a sometime breeder of horses and eco-activist who--when not in the drunk tank--is carrying on a passionate affair with Amber Finley, the daughter of Romulus Finley, a vindictive and bigoted powerful U.S. senator. When Johnny is suspected of murdering the hit man who invaded his home as well as masterminding the burglary of Global Research (a high-tech agricultural lab), making off with its computer files, the action picks up quickly. Noted for quirky characters and intricate plots, Burke introduces demon-driven sheriff's deputy Darrel McComb--an ex-war hero and former mercenary pilot who flew cocaine for the contras--who has an erotic fixation on Amber. Factor in private security agency chief Greta Lundstrum, FBI agent Seth Masterson and Karsten Mabus, CEO of the company that owns Global Research, and the mayhem builds to a gripping, spine-tingling finale. nCopyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. n nFrom Bookmarks Magazine nBurke sets his fourth Billy Bob Holland crime drama on the edge of the Bitterroot Mountains in Montana. This fast-paced mystery occasionally slows to a tumbleweed pace so the author can comment on the treatment of Native Americans, corporate misuses of the environment, and governmental intrusion into privacy. But when his intriguing characters demand equal attention, Burke crafts action sequences so realistic you can practically smell the gunpowder and sweat. Some critics cite gratuitous plotting and uneven characters. But with the reappearance of homicidal rodeo clown Wyatt Dixon (who buried the hero's wife alive in the third installment, Bitteroot), most agree that Ponies is the best yet in the series. n nCopyright ? 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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James Lee Burke Swan Peak
Orion 1409100510 / 9781409100515 PAPERBACK Fine
1409100510 Review nOn leave from his job as sheriff's deputy in New Iberia, La., Dave Robicheaux learns that people in Montana's Big Sky country are as swaggering and venal as anyone in the Big Easy.Shaken by the devastation of New Orleans (The Tin Roof Blowdown, 20
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