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Bitterroot by Burke, James Lee is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bitterroot about?
<p>Following his acclaimed bestseller <i>Purple Cane Road,</i> James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force.</p> <p>Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life, as well as to xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia, Burke's novel features Billy Bob Holland, former Texas Ranger and now a Texas-based lawyer, who has come to Big Sky Country for some fishing and ends up helping out an old friend in trouble.</p> <p>And big trouble it is, not just for his friend but for Billy Bob himself — in the form of Wyatt Dixon, a recent prison parolee sworn to kill Billy Bob as revenge for both his imprisonment and his sister's death, both of which he blames on the former Texas lawman. As the mysteries multiply and the body count mounts, the reader is drawn deeper into the tortured mind of Billy Bob Holland, a complex hero tormented by the mistakes of his past and driven to make things — all things — right. But beneath the guise of justice for the weak and downtrodden lies a tendency for violence that at times becomes more terrifying than the danger he is trying to eradicate.</p> <p>As <i>USA To
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Burke, James Lee
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Published
- 1971
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780743217538
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (2,331 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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