If you can handle that and you’re up for a wild ride through the sagebrush, then, “Feast Day of Fools” is a book to own.Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town with a deep and abiding respect for the citizens in his care. This is a heart-thumper, but beware that some of the scenes ain’t purdy. I liked this flawed new sheriff, and I liked the large cast of good guys and bad guys that surround him– mostly because the line between good and bad changes often in this fine novel. It’s heartbreakingly gorgeous and sandpaper-harsh, both at the same time.Īuthor James Lee Burke’s new lawman, Hackberry Holland is an underemployed, aging man with a past, part of which he can barely discuss and all of which comes back to haunt him daily. It’s like a picture postcard slashed with a bloody knife. Reading “Feast Day of Fools” is an experience in yin and yang. He just had to figure out what to do about it… Collins knew who was chasing after Noie Barnum, and he knew why. Krill wasn’t any closer to catching Barnum, which meant that he was no closer to turning Barnum over to Josef Sholokoff, who didn’t want Barnum, so much as he wanted what Barnum knew.īut Barnum was safe, hiding with Preacher Jack Collins, a ruthless killer who was well-known to southeast Texas, Sheriff Holland, and an oddly disinterested FBI. It was Krill who tore the Mexican apart, but torture did no good. The man called Krill wanted Noie Barnum in order to settle a score. Ling had done a lot in her past to hurt her fellow man. Danny Boy was prone to whiskey-fueled visions, but Holland knew that the Mexican’s death didn’t come from a bottle.Īnton Ling had given Noie Barnum succor on his way through the desert – just like she gave to the illegal immigrants streaming past her shack.
But the Mexican didn’t know that, and it got him torn apart.Īfter Danny Boy Lorca heard the body being scattered across the southwest Texas desert, he slithered to the county jail to tell Sheriff Hackberry Holland. The guy at the other end of the busted handcuffs, Noie Barnum, was a Quaker pacifist with government secrets in his head and atonement in his heart. They had become separated, the two men, on their way through the desert to freedom. The Mexican picked the wrong man to be tethered to. In the new book “Feast Day of Fools” by James Lee Burke, Holland knows he’s on his own. A deranged genius has shown up in his county again but the FBI, the DEA, nobody’s interested in helping. The same goes for Sheriff Hackberry Holland. You’ve also gathered plenty of (unsolicited) advice and (un)helpful hints and, though things might get messy, you’re finally ready to start. Sure, you’re prepared: you’ve studied it over, asked the professionals, and searched the internet. You’ve got a big project and that’s the conclusion you’ve come to.
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