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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Mystery My first encounter with James Lee Burke is his 30th novel, but I enjoyed the baroque backstories his characters have developed in my absence. Obviously Burke is willing to wait out new fans, for he can maintain a languorous pace from first page to last. I'm not sure Texas scenery really requires so much gunfire though. He holds attention well enough with closely observed detail to need the large cast of bad guys. But part of the fun is seeing if Burke can find motivation for such popcorn-movie servings of evil. Much like Blood Meredian, I found this book to have a great deal of senseless violence and too many characters, with changing agendas. It was hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys, especially the religious characters. The basic plot surrounded a technogeek, whose designed drones and was kidnapped to be sold to Al Qaeda until the kidnappers thought the narcs would pay more. I felt ambivalent about Sheriff Hackberry Holland, whose moral compass was often better than his behaviors. I kind of liked the evil Preacher Jack Collins, who helps Holland and his deputy rescue La Magdalena from the Russian gangster (along with another crazed character named Krill.) Texas, a religious serial killer, FBI, CIA, Russian mafia, Mexican bad guys--mix together in the desert, with memories of Vietnam and Cambodia, and a Chinese mystic and you have a great story by James Lee Burke. If you like your violence with philosophy, beauty and horror mixed into great storytelling, you'll like this book.
Burke is constructing a whole new mythology in this series, with characters haunted by history and driven by ghosts. Danny Boy Lorca, an alcoholic Indian who knows where dinosaur eggs are buried, has visions of the prehistoric past. Hackberry hears bugles on the wind, remnants he associates with the time of Cortés. A mercenary named Krill sees the spirits of his three dead children, whose mortal remains he carries around in a box. Even Preacher Jack Collins, the mass murderer from the series’s previous novel, “Rain Gods,” finds his way here, pursued by the ghosts of the women he killed in that book. Pertence a SériePrémiosDistinctions
Interviewing an alcoholic Native American who witnessed a murder along the Texas-Mexico border, Sheriff Hack Holland and his deputy, Sam Tibbs, recognize the work of serial killer Preacher Jack Collins in an investigation that is assisted by the enigmatic Anton Ling. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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