Bitterroot by James
Lee Burke
A Billy Bob Holland Mystery
Simon and Schuster - June 12, 2001
ISBN: 0743204832 - Hardback / Audio/ Large print
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Billy Bob Holland is
an ex-Texas-Ranger-turned-lawyer with a haunted past. His most persistent
apparition is the ghost of his dear friend, L.Q. Navarro, whom he accidentally
shot and killed while hunting down drug mules in Mexico.
In an effort to escape
his inner demons and take a much-needed vacation, Billy Bob accepts an
invitation from his friend, Doc Voss, to visit him and his teenage daughter
in Bitterroot, Montana. Upon arrival, Billy Bob finds himself drawn into
Doc's fight first with local bikers, then with White Supremacists and
lastly, the local mining company. After Doc's daughter is brutally raped,
the dead bodies start piling up. Is Doc taking his revenge in the style
he has grown accustomed to while stationed in Viet Nam, or is there a
more sinister power at play?
Thrown into all of this
is the release of a psychotic prisoner turned rodeo cowboy who holds Billy
Bob responsible for the death of his child-killing sister. With him is
a young man who has developed a sick fascination for Doc's daughter. Also
added to the mix is a local female doctor who has taken a shine to Billy
Bob.
James Lee Burke is a
painter with words. His books never fail to transport the reader to the
location of which he is writing, should it be the sultry atmosphere of
the swamps of the New Iberia parish in the Louisiana of his Dave Robicheaux
novels, or the Texas skies and gorgeous mountains, plentiful wildlife
and wonderful fly-fishing in Montana of his Billy Bob Holland books.
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