Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke audiobook

Feast Day of Fools: A Novel

By James Lee Burke
Read by Will Patton

Simon & Schuster Audio

The Hackberry Holland Novels: Book 3

Unabridged

Format : CD (In Stock)
  • 1 Format: CD

  • ISBN: 9781442344266

Runtime: 16.20 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A New York Times bestseller

A 2012 Audie Award Finalist for Mystery

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

A USA Today bestseller

A 2011 Hammett Prize Finalist

A Kirkus Reviews “New and Notable Title”, September 2011

Selected for the October 2011 Indie Next List

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, September 2011

An Amazon Top 100 Book in 2011

Winner of the 2012 Audie Award for Mystery

The critically acclaimed thirtieth entry from New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke, featuring Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland in an epic tale that is equal parts thriller, Western, and literary masterpiece.

James Lee Burke returns to the Texas border town of his bestseller Rain Gods, where a serial killer presumed dead is very much alive…and where sheriff Hackberry Holland, now a widower, fights for survival—his own, and of the citizens he’s sworn to protect.

When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert, Hackberry’s investigation leads him to Anton Ling, a mysterious Chinese woman known for sheltering illegals. Ling denies any knowledge of the attack, but something in her aristocratic beauty seduces Hack into overlooking that she is as dangerous as the men she harbors. And when soulless Preacher Jack Collins reemerges, the cold-blooded killer may prove invaluable to Hackberry. This time, he and the Preacher have a common enemy.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“James Lee Burke presses onward with his singular mission to rewrite the American western in Feast Day of Fools…Burke is constructing a whole mew mythology in this series, with characters haunted by history and driven by ghosts…Hackberry Holland’s assertion that ‘a martial and savage spirit had ruled these hills’ since the time of the conquistadors is a good man’s way of saying that the violence we do sinks into the ground we walk on and becomes part of our collective heritage.”  —New York Times Book Review
“Burke’s evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder.”  —Entertainment Weekly
“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 21st century go marching in, James Lee Burke will be leading the parade. For five decades, Burke has created memorable novels that weave exquisite language, unforgettable characters, and social commentary into written tapestries that mirror the contemporary scene. His work transcends genre classification…Feast Day of Fools is a richly complex novel with several themes and subplots…extraordinary characterizations, dialogue, sense of place, and an almost mystical, allegorical summation.”  —Philadelphia Inquirer
“Riveting…Burke is creating an allegorical, almost Biblical setting here: The lost wander hopelessly in the desert, seeking revenge or redemption or some terrible mix of both. The moral center in all of this is Hackberry Holland, who feels old ‘in the way people feel old when they have more knowledge of the world than they need.’ He’s Burke’s most fascinating character, a man whose sense of justice has been shaken but not destroyed. Equally compelling is Pam Tibbs, the most no-nonsense woman in fictional law enforcement (‘Men often thought she was trying to be cute. They were mistaken’). The push-and-pull between the two is just one more of Burke’s thrilling examples of the mysteries of the human heart.”  —Miami Herald

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Author Bio: James Lee Burke

Author Bio: James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author of forty novels and two short-story collections. He has won the Edgar Award, the CWA Gold Dagger, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policièr. He was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. His novel The Lost-Get Back Boogie was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and he has twice received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Burke and his wife, Pearl, split their time between Montana and Louisiana.

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Available Formats : CD
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 16.20
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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