James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He's authored thirty-nine novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
"Burke's evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce
wonder."--"Entertainment Weekly"
"He's a genius, Burke, and I read everything he puts out. All his
novels are about good vs. evil and how hard it is to overcome evil.
This one's about a Texas sheriff and two villains, one associated
with the [drug] cartels, the other a mass murderer. The three of
them collide.""--"Bill O'Reilly for the" New York Post"""
"Holy shit does this novel crush into its pages a whole war chest
of bloody drama and brutal questions about what it means to be an
American and a Christian and a Christian American in the new
century. . . . James Lee Burke--muscular and elegiac, brutal and
compassionate--is a Stetson-wearing, spur-jangling giant among
novelists."--Benjamin Percy for "Esquire"
"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."--"The New York Times Book
Review"
"James Lee Burke's thirty superbly written mysteries and Westerns
have always been allegorical, illuminating the grandest of themes.
Over the years, he has written about racism, neocolonialism, the
rape of the environment, the hijacking of Christianity by hateful
bigots and the futility of war. He has written about manipulative
political and business figures, and about the quest for individual
and national redemption. He has also explored the nature of evil. .
. . In "Feast Day of Fools", Burke pulls all of his themes together
in a master work that comprises his unified theory of America at
the beginning of the 21st century. . . . And as always in a Burke
novel, the landscape is vividly described in passages so poetic
they could be broken into lines of verse."--Bruce DeSilva, "The
Associated Press"
"Like the hero of his 30th work, to be published Tuesday, James Lee
Burke delivers--again. There's a reason Burke, 75, has earned the
Grand Master title from the Mystery Writers of America and is
tagged by some colleagues as the greatest living mystery writer. .
. . He combines complex characterization, driving action and a
philosophical bent--and his consistency is remarkable, carrying him
through 18 Dave Robicheaux books, set in Louisiana, and now the
third novel in the Hack Holland series. The man is legendary, and
rightly so. . . . But "Feast Day of Fools" is more than action.
It's a sprawling, compelling, allegorical story with characters
that just won't get out of my mind. Through it all, Burke shares
some of his hard-won knowledge about life. And that makes it one of
the Grand Master's best."--"New Orleans Times-Picayune"
"Nobody turns suspense into poetry like James Lee Burke."--"San
Antonio Express-News"
"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."--"The Miami Herald"
"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"
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