Feast Day of Fools : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from Beamis12

Such interesting characters and a wonderful way with words. Different threads and twists to the story that all come together in a convergence for the ending. Not sure what to make of Preacher Jack, really a rather unique villain, a psychopath and killer with super intelligence and his own code of...

from TexasBookLover

By James Lee Burke Simon & Schuster 463 pgs 978-1-4516-4311-4 Rating - Read This! James Lee Burke is one of my top five authors. By my best accounting he has written 31 books. He is probably best known for the Dave Robicheaux novels that follow the life and times of a deputy sheriff in New Iberia...

from DrLed

Books by JLB can be very uneven as to plot quality. This one was better than the last few I've read. Preacher Collins makes a return appearance and alternately wrecks havoc and saves lives. Hackberry Holland still can't rid himself of his deamons and still doesn't interact well with others.

from JBreedlove

JLB is great as usual. Hack is not Robicheaux but he is OK. Great sense of place in SW Texas and the Mexican border region but it was a little much w Pam the deputy. The usual ultra bad guys and a caste of nefarious characters looking for redemption.

from johnwbeha

Reading the afterword I was surprised to read James Lee Burke announcing that this is his best book - Sorry to disagree with the great writer, but "The Tin Roff Blowdown" and "In The Electric Mist With The Confederate Dead" stand head and shoulders above it in my view. It is still a great read, b...