Pursuing his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force.

Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, house to celebrities wanting to get away the pressures of public life, as well as to xenophobes focused on establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia, Burke’s novel features Billy Bob Holland, previous Texas Ranger and now a Texas-based lawyer, who has arrive to Big Sky Nation for some angling and ends up helping out a vintage friend in trouble. about Bitterroot

And big problems it is, not only for his friend but also for Billy Bob himself — by means of Wyatt Dixon, a recently available prison parolee sworn to eliminate Billy Bob as revenge for both his imprisonment and his sister’s death, both of which he blames for the previous Tx lawman. As the mysteries multiply and your body count mounts, the audience is attracted deeper into the tortured brain of Billy Bob Holland, a complex hero tormented by the mistakes of his recent and driven to create things — all things — best. But beneath the guise of justice for the poor and downtrodden is situated a propensity for violence that at times becomes more terrifying than the danger he’s trying to eradicate.

As USA Today noted in talking about the parallels between Billy Bob Holland and Burke’s other popular series hero, David Robicheaux, ‘Robicheaux and Holland are two of a sort, white-hat heroes whose essential goodness doesn’t maintain them from fighting back. Both series explain different landscapes, but one theme continues to be continuous: the internal conflict when upright men are provoked into assault in defense of hearth, house, women, and kids. There are plenty of parallels. Billy Bob is an ex-Texas Ranger; Dave can be an ex-New Orleans cop. Dave fights alcoholism as well as the ghosts of Vietnam; Billy Bob in fact sees ghosts, like the Ranger he accidentally gunned down….But primarily, both protagonists keep a vision of the pure and simple life.’

In Bitterroot, with its durable and vivid setting up, its intricate plot, and a set of remarkable, unforgettable people, and crafted using the lyrical prose and the elegiac shade that have inspired many critics to evaluate him to William Faulkner, Wayne Lee Burke offers created a thriller destined to surpass the success of his earlier novels.