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Hackberry Holland: Book 3

Feast Day of Fools (2011) (edit title/settings)

by James Lee Burke (Author) (edit contributors)

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Celebrated crime master James Lee Burke returns with a gorgeously crafted, brutally resonant chronicle of violence along the Texas-Mexico border.

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Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town with a deep and abiding respect for the citizens in his care. Still mourning the loss of his cherished wife, and locked in a perilous almost-romance with his Deputy Pam Tibbs, a woman many decades his junior, Hackberry feeds... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town with a deep and abiding respect for the citizens in his care. Still mourning the loss of his cherished wife, and locked in a perilous almost-romance with his Deputy Pam Tibbs, a woman many decades his junior, Hackberry feeds off of the deeds of evil men to keep his own demons at bay.

When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert and reports it, Hack’s investigation to the home of Anton Ling, a regal, mysterious Chinese woman whom the locals refer to as La Magdalena and who is known for sheltering illegals. Ling denies having seen the victims or perpetrators, but there is something in her steely demeanor and aristocratic beauty that compels Hackberry to return to her home again and again as the investigation unfolds. Could it be that the Sheriff is so taken in by this creature who reminds him of his deceased wife, that he would ignore the possibility that she is just as dangerous as the men she harbors?

The danger in the desert increases tenfold with the return of serial murderer Preacher Jack Collins, (whom The New York Times called “one of Burke’s most inspired villains”). Presumed dead at the close of Rain Gods, Preacher Jack has reemerged with a calm, single-minded zeal for killing which is more terrifying than the muzzle flash of his signature machine gun. But this time he and Sheriff Holland share a common enemy.

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  • Hackberry Holland: Texas sheriff.
  • Jack Collins: The monstrous, messianic killer who is Sheriff Hackberry's prime fugitive in a story in which villains outnumber the cactus. He is a preacher currently without a parish.
  • Pam Tibbs: Hack's deputy sheriff who looks up to him and has a romantic idea of him.
  • La Magdalena: Also known as Anton Ling a Chinese woman who harbors illegial aliens.
  • Temple Dowling: A citizen soldier who employees mercenaries
  • Noie Barnum: a former federal employee who has information about the Preditor program
  • Danny Boy Lorca: A witness to a murder and a regular at the jail's drunk tank.
  • Krill: Add a description of this character.
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Some people said Danny Boy Lorca's visions came from the mescal that had friend his brains, or the horse-quirt whippings he took around the ears when he served time on Silver Land Farm, or the fact he'd been a middleweight club fighter through a string of dust-blown sinkholes where the locals were given a chance to beat up what was called a tomato can, a fighter who leaked blood every place he was hit, in this case a rumdum Indian who ate his pain and never flinched when his opponents broke their hands on his face.

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This is book 3 of 3 in Hackberry Holland. (standard series)

Preceded by Rain Gods.

This is book 10 of 10 in Amazon.com Best Books of September (2011). (authoritative list)

Preceded by Habibi.

This book is in Amazon.com Best Books of 2011. (authoritative list)

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  1. James Lee Burke (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: United States
Publication Date: September 27, 2011
ISBN: 978-1451643114
Page Count: 480

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  • Lay Down My Sword and Shield
  • Rain Gods

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