Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland has many secrets in his dark past. Among them is Vernon Smothers' son Lucas, a teenaged boy about whom only Vernon and Billy Bob know the truth. Lucas is really Billy Bob's illegitimate son, and when Lucas is arrested for murder, Billy Bob knows that he has no choice but to confront the past and serve as the boy's criminal attorney. During Lucas's trial, Billy Bob realizes that he will have to bring injury upon Lucas as well as himself in order to save his son. And as a result, Billy Bob creates enemies that are far more dangerous than any he had faced as a Texas Ranger.
Biografie
James Lee Burke, 1936 in Louisiana geboren, wurde bereits Ende der 1960er Jahre als neue Stimme aus den Südstaaten gefeiert. Mitte der 1980er Jahre begann er Kriminalromane zu schreiben, in denen er die unvergleichliche Atmosphäre von New Orleans mit starken Geschichten verbindet.