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Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour-de force. Occur the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities trying to escape the pressures of public life, in addition to to xenophobes focused on establishing a bulkhead of patriotic fear, Burke's book functions Billy Bob Holland, former Texas Ranger and now a Texas-based attorney, who has arrived at Big Sky Region for many angling and eventually ends up helping out a classic friend in trouble. And huge trouble it's, not only for his buddy but for Billy Bob herself -- in the shape of Wyatt Dixon, a recently available prison parolee sworn to destroy Billy Bob as vengeance for both his incarceration and his sibling's death, both which he blames on the previous Texas lawman. Whilst the secrets grow and your body count mounts, the audience is pulled further in to the mind of Billy Bob Holland, a complicated hero suffering from the errors of his past and motivated to create things -- all things -- right.