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James Lee Burke is a wonderful writer. The language he uses is exquisite, each word carefully honed to fit the situation. Every book he writes is an exploration of language. Hackberry Holland is old. He has spent his life drinking and whoring, trying to forget the No Name Valley in Korea where he betrayed fellow prisoners in a Korean prisoner of war camp. Now, after two marriages and a lifetime of regrets, he is the sheriff in a tiny town at the back of beyond Texas. A whirlwind of chaos names Preacher Jack Collins rides into his town and decimates the lives of an Iraqi war vet and his lady as well as Hack's. What follows is a maelstrom of conflict between Russian mobsters, New Orleans mobsters and the rest of the world. ]]>
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"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." — Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car." — Garrison Keillor
"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car." — Garrison Keillor
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