Bitterroot Audiobook (Free)

Following his acclaimed bestseller Crimson Cane Road, James Lee Burke comes back using a triumphant tour de push.

Occur the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities wanting to get away the stresses of public existence, as well as to xenophobes focused on building a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia, Burke’s book features Billy Bob Holland, previous Texas Ranger and today a Texas-based attorney, who has come to Big Sky Nation for some angling and eventually ends up assisting out a vintage friend in trouble. about Bitterroot

And big difficulty it is, not only for his friend but for Billy Bob himself — by means of Wyatt Dixon, a recently available jail parolee sworn to kill Billy Bob as revenge for both his imprisonment and his sister’s death, both which he blames for the previous Tx lawman. As the mysteries multiply and your body count mounts, the reader is drawn deeper in to the tortured mind of Billy Bob Holland, a complicated hero suffering from the mistakes of his past and driven to make things — all things — best. But beneath the guise of justice for the fragile and downtrodden is situated a propensity for violence that sometimes becomes even more terrifying than the danger he is trying to eradicate.

As USA Today observed in discussing the parallels between Billy Bob Holland and Burke’s various other well-known series hero, David Robicheaux, ‘Robicheaux and Holland are two of a kind, white-hat heroes whose important goodness doesn’t maintain them from fighting back. Both series explain different landscapes, but one theme remains continuous: the internal issue when upright guys are provoked into assault in defense of hearth, home, women, and children. There are many parallels. Billy Bob can be an ex-Texas Ranger; Dave is an ex-New Orleans cop. Dave fights alcoholism and the ghosts of Vietnam; Billy Bob in fact sees ghosts, like the Ranger he unintentionally gunned down….But most of all, both protagonists keep a vision of a pure and simple life.’

In Bitterroot, using its rugged and vivid establishing, its intricate storyline, and a set of remarkable, unforgettable people, and crafted using the lyrical prose as well as the elegiac build that have inspired many critics to compare him to William Faulkner, James Lee Burke has created a thriller destined to surpass the success of his earlier novels.