|
|
Another violent and lyrical crime novel from the master, set in the harshly beautiful landscape of south Texas where Sherrif Hackberry Holland (hero of RAIN GODS) is facing more drug-fuelled murder and mayhem from across the Mexican border.
| ISBN | 140914030X | | Pages | 480 | | ISBN13 | 9781409140306
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 760 | | Publisher | Orion Publishing Co | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) | | Height (mm) | 238 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 160 | | Publication date | 18 Dec 2010 | | Spine width (mm) | 40 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
|
| |
Burke gives us some wonderful dialogue between flawed characters reaching for higher truths, and some wickedly pungent descriptive passages ... superb writing. -- Siobhan Murphy METRO 20111123 Menacingly dark but with chinks of glittering perception, Lee Burke is the king of Southern noir. This complicated but utterly compelling tale finds Sheriff Hackberry Holland in a three-way manhunt - and it's the religious maniac who's most disturbing. -- Henry Sutton DAILY MIRROR 20111125 His set pieces are sharp and effective and his prose swoops and soars with a lyricism that would make a poet's heart ache with envy. The plot continues to drive you forward but you force yourself to slow down: to savour the quality of the words arranged on the page. CRIMESQUAD.COM 20120101  Be the first to write a customer review
|
|
|
|
|
Enlarge
