Billy Bob Holland #3
Pocket
May 2002
On Sale: May 1, 2002
Featuring: Billy Bob Holland
480 pages ISBN: 0743411439 EAN: 9780743411431 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane
Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour
de force.
Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home
to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public
life, as well as to xenophobes dedicated to establishing a
bulkhead of patriotic paranoia, Burke's novel features
Billy Bob Holland, former Texas Ranger and now a Texas-
based lawyer, who has come to Big Sky Country for some
fishing and ends up helping out an old friend in
trouble.
And big trouble it is, not just for his friend
but for Billy Bob himself -- in the form of Wyatt Dixon, a
recent prison parolee sworn to kill Billy Bob as revenge
for both his imprisonment and his sister's death, both of
which he blames on the former Texas lawman. As the
mysteries multiply and the body count mounts, the reader
is drawn deeper into the tortured mind of Billy Bob
Holland, a complex hero tormented by the mistakes of his
past and driven to make things -- all things -- right. But
beneath the guise of justice for the weak and downtrodden
lies a tendency for violence that at times becomes more
terrifying than the danger he is trying to eradicate.
As
USA Today noted in discussing the parallels between
Billy Bob Holland and Burke's other popular series hero,
David Robicheaux, "Robicheaux and Holland are two of a
kind, white-hat heroes whose essential goodness doesn't
keep them from fighting back. The two series describe
different landscapes, but one theme remains constant: the
inner conflict when upright men are provoked into violence
in defense of hearth, home, women, and children. There are
plenty of parallels. Billy Bob is an ex-Texas Ranger; Dave
is an ex-New Orleans cop. Dave battles alcoholism and the
ghosts of Vietnam; Billy Bob actually sees ghosts,
including the Ranger he accidentally gunned down....But
most of all, both protagonists hold a vision of a pure and
simple life."
In Bitterroot, with its rugged and
vivid setting, its intricate plot, and a set of
remarkable, unforgettable characters, and crafted with the
lyrical prose and the elegiac tone that have inspired many
critics to compare him to William Faulkner, James Lee
Burke has written a thriller destined to surpass the
success of his previous novels.
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