Wayfaring Stranger

Publisher Marketing: From "America's best novelist" ("The Denver Post"): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clyde's stolen automobile. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine, escape certain death in the Battle of the Bulge and encounter a beautiful young woman named Rosita Lowenstein hiding in a deserted extermination camp. Eventually, Weldon and Rosita fall in love and marry and, with Hershel, return to Texas to seek their fortunes. There, they enter the domain of jackals known as the oil business. They meet Roy Wiseheart--a former Marine aviator haunted with guilt for deserting his squadron leader over the South Pacific--and Roy's wife Clara, a vicious anti-Semite who is determined to make Weldon and Rosita's life a nightmare. It will be the frontier justice upheld by Weldon's grandfather, Texas lawman Hackberry Holland, and the legendary antics of Bonnie and Clyde that shape Weldon's plans for saving his family from the evil forces that lurk in peacetime America and threaten to destroy them all. Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2014 pg. 53 (EAN 9781476710792, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 05/19/2014 (EAN 9781476710792, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 06/15/2014 pg. 88 (EAN 9781476710792, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2014 (EAN 9781476710792, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 07/11/2014 pg. 71 (EAN 9781476710792, Hardcover) Booklist 07/01/2014 pg. 45 (EAN 9781476710792, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Shelf Awareness 07/25/2014 (EAN 9781476710792, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 08/17/2014 pg. 16 (EAN 9781476710792, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 08/24/2014 pg. 30 (EAN 9781476710792, Hardcover) Audio File 04/01/2015 pg. 50 (EAN 9781442369924, Compact Disc) Contributor Bio:  Burke, James Lee James Lee Burke, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, is the author of more than thirty previous novels and two collections of short stories, including such "New York Times" bestsellers as "Light of the World", "Creole Belle", "Swan Peak", "The Tin Roof Blowdown", and "Feast Day of Fools". He lives in Missoula, Montana. Contributor Bio:  Patton, Will Will Patton's numerous film credits include" Remember the Titans", "The Punisher", "The Mothman Prophesies", "Armageddon", and "The Spitfire Grill". He starred in the TNT miniseries "Into the West" and on the CBS series "The Agency", and won Obie Awards in the theater for his performances in "Fool for Love" and "What Did He See".