Bitterroot (Billy Bob Holland)

by JamesLeeBurke (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.25

  John Steinbeck once said Montana is a love affair. If a person was going to make his troth with any particular place on earth, I don't think he could find a better one than this stretch of road. Every bridge crossed a postcard stream, every mountain tumbled into one higher and a deeper green than itself.' But in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, the love affair has a chilling side, as ex-Texas Ranger, now lawyer, Billy Bob Holland discovers on a visit to his friend from Vietnam days, Doc Voss. Doc's daughter Maisey is brutally gang-raped by bikers and ring leader Lamar Ellison walks free when the DNA samples 'get lost'. Billy Bob wonders whose side the sheriff is on? Soon after, Ellison is burned alive and Doc is arrested. So much for Billy Bob's vacation - Doc needs a lawyer, and fast. Not only that: newly released killer, the grotesque Wyatt Dixon has tracked Billy Bob to Montana, bent on avenging the death of his sister for which he holds Billy Bob responsible. As the corpses of the guilty and innocent pile up, Billy Bob stands alone, still haunted by his dead friend L.Q. Navarro, determined that the centre will hold, no matter what evil threatens it. In this follow-up to Heartwood and the Edgar-Award-winning Cimarron Rose, America's finest crime writer sets the breathtaking Montana landscape in direct counterpoint to the savage darkness that exists there.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.25

  John Steinbeck once said Montana is a love affair. If a person was going to make his troth with any particular place on earth, I don't think he could find a better one than the stretch of road I was now on. Every bridge crossed a postcard stream, every mountain tumbled into one higher and a deeper green than itself.

  But in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, the love affair has a violent side, as ex-Texas Ranger turned lawyer, Billy Bob discovers when he goes fishing with his friend from Vietnam days, Doc Voss. Doc's daughter Maisey is brutally gang-raped and beaten by bikers. Ring leader Lamar Ellison walks free when the DNA samples get lost and Billy Bob wonders whose side the sheriff is really on. Then Ellison is burned alive and Doc is arrested. So much for Billy Bob's vacation...

  Doc needs a lawyer, and fast. Not only that: newly released killer Wyatt Dixon has tracked Billy Bob to Montana, bent on avenging the death of his sister for which he holds Billy Bob responsible. The grotesque Wyatt, like a virus that immediately recognises the antibodies in an immune system as its enemy , is only one thread of a tangled web of evil that includes neo-Nazi militias, gold miners who tip cyanide into the rivers, a paedophile ring and the Mob. As the corpses of the guilty and innocent pile up, Billy Bob stands alone.

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $11.62

  America's finest crime writer sends hero Billy Bob Holland deep into Montana - paradise to some, to others a savage wilderness...When Billy Bob Holland visits his old friend Doc Voss, he finds himself caught up in a horrific tragedy. Doc's daughter has been brutally attacked by bikers, and the ringleader, Lamar Ellison, walks free when the DNA samples 'get lost'. Then Ellison is burned alive and Doc is arrested. So much for Billy Bob's vacation - Doc needs a lawyer, and fast. And that's not all. Newly released killer Wyatt Dixon has tracked Billy Bob to Montana, bent on avenging the death of his sister for which he holds Billy Bob responsible. And Wyatt is only one thread of a tangled web of evil that includes neo-Nazi militias, gold miners who tip cyanide into the rivers, a paedophile ring, and the Mob. As the corpses of the guilty and innocent pile up, Billy Bob stands alone.