Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

2015 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense

In his most ambitious function yet, NY Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man’s unforgettable life.

In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous bad guys Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious equipped robberies. A confrontation using the outlaws ends with Weldon firing a gun, unsure whether it strike its mark.

Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland about Wayfaring Stranger: A Book barely survives the Fight of the Bulge, along the way saving the lives of his sergeant, Hershel Pine, and a young Spanish prisoner of war, Rosita Lowenstein-a woman who holds the same romantic power over him as the strawberry blonde Bonnie Parker, and it is equally mysterious. The three return to Tx where Weldon and Hershel get in on the ground floor from the nascent oil business.

In just several years’ period Weldon will spar with the jackals from the market, rub shoulders with dangerous men, and win and lose fortunes double over. Nonetheless it is the potential customer of dropping his one true love which will spur his most reckless respond yet-one motivated by that encounter long ago using the outlaws of his youngsters.

A tender love story and pulse-pounding thriller, Wayfaring Stranger ‘is a sprawling historical epic full of courage and loyalty and optimism and good-heartedness that reads as an ode towards the American Fantasy’ (Benjamin Percy, Poets & Writers).