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Original Title:	Heartwood
ISBN:	0440224012 (ISBN13: 9780440224013)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Billy Bob Holland #2, Holland Family (Hackberry, Billy Bob, and Saga) #3
Setting:	Texas(United States)
Literary Awards:	Hammett Prize Nominee (1999)

Heartwood (Billy Bob Holland #2) Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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Title	:	Heartwood (Billy Bob Holland #2)
Author	:	James Lee Burke
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	July 11th 2000 by Island Books (first published August 3rd 1999)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller

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I sometimes feel like my 'Great American Detective' shelf should be called 'Great American Vigilantes', considering that Spenser and Jack Reacher share space on it with Harry Bosch and Elvis Cole. (It's a very chauvinistic category I've created for myself, here. Have to see about fixing that.) Billy Bob Holland is a lawyer, and justice is more important to him than fitting nicely into the system.

Burke is amazing storyteller, and I don't mean just that he has a knack hand with plot. He uses language in a way that makes me linger over these books, often reading passages aloud to myself. His descriptions of Texas - both scenery and society - are fascinating. He's the kind of writer who makes me want to be not only a good writer, myself, but a great writer.

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Totally deconstruct F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby; swap around the characters; add drugs and some Native American magical realism; make the narrator a former Texas Ranger; set the story in the hill country west of San Antonio, and you will have something close to this crime novel from the fertile mind of James Lee Burke.It even ends with a dead body in a swimming pool and a melancholy closing image much like Fitzgeraldsnot boats against the current, but a boy and girl in a customized car

I sometimes feel like my 'Great American Detective' shelf should be called 'Great American Vigilantes', considering that Spenser and Jack Reacher share space on it with Harry Bosch and Elvis Cole. (It's a very chauvinistic category I've created for myself, here. Have to see about fixing that.) Billy Bob Holland is a lawyer, and justice is more important to him than fitting nicely into the system.Burke is amazing storyteller, and I don't mean just that he has a knack hand with plot. He uses

I recently read the 4th Billy Bob Holland book and wanted more. This is #2. Billy Bob is still in southern Texas. He's a lawyer (and former Texas Ranger), and his future wife Temple is his investigator. Billy Bob's girlfriend from his teen years, town beauty Peggie Jean, is now married to wealthy Earl Dietrich. A down on his luck rodeo rider with a blind psychic Native American wife gets involved in the theft of an antique watch and some bearer bonds from Earl. Meanwhile, some Mexican gang

Cant get enough of James Lee Burke. This is #2 in the Billy Bob Holland series - hes a defense attorney in Deaf Smith, Texas (which is actually a real Texas county!). He deals with corrupt wealthy people, lowlife gangsters, Mexicans and native people who are treated like second class citizens, and even crooked sheriffs. The action is frightening; the language is awesome - who cant love an author who uses words like meretriciousness and abeyance?

Heartwood by James Lee Burke, published by Doubleday.Category - Mystery/Thriller Publication Date September 21, 2011.This is another Billy Bob Holland novel and another one that I have been remiss in reading.The reader will have to pay special attention to this novel because unlike his other novels Heartwood tends to be a little more complex in both the story and the characters.If you remember Billy Bob is an ex Texas Ranger turned lawyer. He is a believer in that the poor man gets poor

"Heartwood", is the second in a series of stories 'starring' Billy Bob Holland, a defense lawyer who was a Texas Ranger. Like most of Burke's stories, it is beautifully written, haunting and you don't know what the hell motivates the characters to do the things they do. It certainly holds its own in his list of novels and if you are a fan of Burke, you will probably enjoy this book.

"In my mind's eye I saw Ronnie Cross and Esmeralda Ramirez flying down an empty six-lane highway through the countryside, the chromed engine roaring, the green dials on the walnut dashboard indicating levels of control and power that seemed to transcend the laws of mortality itself.I thought of horsemen fleeing a grass fire in Old Mexico and civilian soldiers who waited with musket and powder horn at an adobe wall and a preacher who baptized by immersion and created a cathedral out of trees and