Wayfaring Stranger $27.99
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster. (2014)
“From “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clyde’s stolen automobile. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine, escape certain death in the Battle of the Bulge and encounter a beautiful young woman named Rosita Lowenstein hiding in a deserted extermination camp. Eventually, Weldon and Rosita fall in love and marry and, with Hershel, return to Texas to seek their fortunes. There, they enter the domain of jackals known as the oil business. They meet Roy Wiseheart–a former Marine aviator haunted with guilt for deserting his squadron leader over the South Pacific–and Roy’s wife Clara, a vicious anti-Semite who is determined to make Weldon and Rosita’s life a nightmare. It will be the frontier justice upheld by Weldon’s grandfather, Texas lawman Hackberry Holland, and the legendary antics of Bonnie and Clyde that shape Weldon’s plans for saving his family from the evil forces that lurk in peacetime America and threaten to destroy them all”
The Lost Get-Back Boogie $500.00
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press (1978)
Recently paroled from prison, Ivy Paret settles in with fellow ex-convict Buddy Riordan and Riordan’s family on a sprawling ranch in Montana and becomes drawn into a tragic conflict involving the family and their neighbors
Dixie City Jam $65.00
New York, NY: Hyperion (1994)
For years, Det. Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff’s office kept the secret of the watery resting place of the Nazi submarine. Now decades later, when a powerful Jewish activist and a neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter both want to find the sub first, Robicheaux’s knowledge puts him at the center of a terrifying struggle of conflicting desires.
Cimarron Rose $40.00
New York, NY: Hyperion (1997)
The acclaimed author of the Dave Robicheaux novels presents a new work that explodes with the violence, beauty, and history of the American West. To defend his illegitimate son, who has been wrongly accused of murder, Billy Bob Holland takes on the powerful class interests controlling the small town of Deaf Smith, Texas. As a result, he winds up facing the demons of his own past.