Book Description:
From James Lee Burke, “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), comes WAYFARING STRANGER: 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 and Clyde 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. Weldon falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Rosita, and they return to Texas to seek their fortunes.
There, they enter the domain of jackals known as the oil business. Eventually, It will be the evil forces that lurk in peacetime America and threaten to destroy them all.
Photo credit Frank Veronsky
About James Lee Burke:
James Lee Burke, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, is the author of more than thirty previous novels and two collections of short stories, including such New York Times bestsellers as Light of the World, Creole Belle, Swan Peak, The Tin Roof Blowdown, and Feast Day of Fools. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
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