RAIN GODS by James Lee Burke - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
See all titles by James Lee Burke.When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the
Mexican border, he'd hoped to leave certain things behind: his
checkered reputation, his haunted dreams, and his obsessive memories of
the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the discovery of the bodies
of nine illegal aliens, machine-gunned to death and buried in a shallow
grave behind a church, soon makes it clear that he won't escape so
easily.
As Hack and Deputy Sheriff Pam Tibbs attempt to untangle
the threads of this complex and grisly case, a damaged young Iraq
veteran, Pete Flores, and his girlfriend, Vikki Gaddis, are running for
their lives, hoping to outwit the bloodthirsty criminals who want to
kill Pete for his involvement in the murders. The only trouble is, Pete
doesn't know who he's running from: drunk and terrified, he fled the
scene of the crime when the shooting began. And there's a long list of
people who want Pete and Vikki dead: crime boss Hugo Cistranos, who
hired Pete for the operation; Nick Dolan, a strip club owner and
small-time gangster with revenge on his mind; and a mysterious
God-fearing serial-killer-for-hire known as Preacher Jack Collins, with
enigmatic motives of his own.
With the FBI, Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, and a host of cold-blooded killers on Pete and
Vikki's trail, it's up to Sheriff Holland to find them first and figure
out who's behind the mass murder before anyone else ends up dead. In
this thrilling and intricate work, James Lee Burke has once again
proven himself a master storyteller and a perceptive chronicler of the
darkest corners of the human heart.
