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James Lee Burke

FEAST DAY FOR FOOLS 1/75 signed limted with an appreciation by James W Hall.

In this latest Hackberry Holland, starring the ageing reformed drunk and whoremonger, now sheriff in a small southwest Texas border town, the bad guys are still real bad, but they have become more multi-dimensional. Chief among the antagonists this time is Preacher Jack Collins, Holland’s nemesis, presumed dead at the end of Rain Gods (2009) but now risen from the desert, still poking the Thompson machine gun in his effort to exorcise a lifetime of demons.

Holland and his chief deputy, Pam Tibbs, are tracking a disaffected Homeland Security scientist in possession of secrets that a wealth of bad guys - Mexican drug dealers, Russian mobsters - would happily peddle to al-Qaeda. At the centre of it all is a mysterious Chinese woman, Anton Ling, who operates a kind of underground railroad for illegals but who is an object of fascination for all the principals, from Holland to Preacher Jack to a Mexican gang leader obsessed with finding a way to bless his dead children. As Burke steers the elaborately structured narrative toward its violent conclusion, we are afforded looks inside the tortured psyches of his various combatants, finding there the most unlikely of connections between the players. This is one of Burke’s biggest novels, Jim Burke has himself acknowledged that he is extremely pleased with the achievement. He regards it as in the the top 2 or 3 books he has written.

Another pleasing part of this edition is the carefully rendered appreciation by mystery writer James W Hall. He describes the beauty of Burke's descriptive language, and compares him favourably to William Faukner. Most of all, he welcomes the move to the larger canvass that the Bob 'Hack' Holland story offers. A Feast Day for Fools has been nominated for the National Book Award.

Due November $150 USD / £68 GBP. We can e-mail you further details.

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