Bitterroot (Billy Bob Holland) - Softcover

Burke, James Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752841556 ISBN 13: 9780752841557

Verlag: Orion, 2001

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Críticas:

James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed. (Michael Connelly)

A gorgeous prose stylist. (A gorgeous prose stylist.)

Richly deserves to be described now as one of the finest crime writers America has ever produced. (Daily Mail)

There are not many crime writers about whom one might invoke the name of Zola for comparison, but Burke is very much in that territory. His stamping ground is the Gulf coast, and one of the great strengths of his work has always been the atmospheric background of New Orleans and the bayous. His big, baggy novels are always about much more than the mechanics of the detective plot; his real subject, like the French master, is the human condition, seen in every situation of society. (Independent)

The king of Southern noir. (Daily Mirror)

His lyrical prose, his deep understanding of what makes people behave as they do, and his control of plot and pace are masterly. (Sunday Telegraph)

One of the finest American writers. (Guardian)

When it comes to literate, pungently characterised American crime writing, James Lee Burke has few peers. (Daily Express)

Reseña del editor:

"John Steinbeck once said Montana is a love affair. If a person was going to make his troth with any particular place on earth, I don't think he could find a better one than the stretch of road I was now on. Every bridge crossed a postcard stream, every mountain tumbled into one higher and a deeper green than itself."

But in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, the love affair has a violent side, as ex-Texas Ranger turned lawyer, Billy Bob discovers when he goes fishing with his friend from Vietnam days, Doc Voss. Doc's daughter Maisey is brutally gang-raped and beaten by bikers. Ring leader Lamar Ellison walks free when the DNA samples "get lost" and Billy Bob wonders whose side the sheriff is really on. Then Ellison is burned alive and Doc is arrested. So much for Billy Bob's vacation...

Doc needs a lawyer, and fast. Not only that: newly released killer Wyatt Dixon has tracked Billy Bob to Montana, bent on avenging the death of his sister for which he holds Billy Bob responsible. The grotesque Wyatt, "like a virus that immediately recognises the antibodies in an immune system as its enemy", is only one thread of a tangled web of evil that includes neo-Nazi militias, gold miners who tip cyanide into the rivers, a paedophile ring and the Mob. As the corpses of the guilty and innocent pile up, Billy Bob stands alone.

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• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0752841556
• ISBN 13: 9780752841557
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336