A riveting tale from lawman Billy Bob Holland’s bloodstained heritage. . . . An essential early novel from New York Times bestselling author
JAMES LEE BURKE
“America’s best novelist.”
—The Denver Post
“James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed.”
—Michael Connelly
“If you believe, as Burke does, that beauty and horror go hand in hand in this life, then he can touch you in ways few writers can.”
—The Washington Post
“Burke’s evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Reading James Lee Burke is a religious experience.”
—San Antonio Express-News
“James Lee Burke—muscular and elegiac, brutal and compassionate—is a Stetson-wearing, spur-jangling giant among novelists.”
—Esquire
“When the literary lights of the twenty-first century go marching in, James Lee Burke will be leading the parade.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Praise for James Lee Burke’s New York Times bestseller
CREOLE BELLE
“Another stunner from a modern master.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A rich example of Burke’s trademark bayou noir. Filled with cruelty and valor, greed and sacrifice, and surprises of the worst and best kind, Creole Belle is a dark but irresistible cruise.”
—Tampa Bay Times
“Superbly drawn . . . heart-pounding.”
—The Washington Post
“Reading James Lee Burke is a religious experience. . . . Creole Belle may be one of his best. . . . ‘Intense’ doesn’t begin to describe a Burke story. . . . ‘Biblical,’ now that about does it.”
—San Antonio Express-News
“As always, Burke brings something new to the table. . . . Dave and Clete may still be unbowed, but they are certainly broken—and all the more interesting for it.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“This is Burke’s thirtieth novel, and the broader canvas of this Hackberry Holland adventure makes a fittingly grand stage on which to play out such a landmark event in American publishing.“
—Booklist (starred review)
“When the literary lights of the twenty-first century go marching in, James Lee Burke will be leading the parade. . . . A richly complex novel. . . . Extraordinary.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“Outstanding. . . . The richness of Burke’s characters reaches new heights.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Feast Day of Fools is moving, humane, and poetically, terrifyingly brilliant. . . . James Lee Burke is, quite simply, a genius.”
—John Connolly, New York Times bestselling author of The Burning Soul