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government, to the mi guided oul cro ing our border in hope of a better life and emerge an heroic ymbol of our time, meting out puni hment and delivering ju tice in hi mall quare of thi magnificent but lawle land. Could it be that Sheriff Holland i o taken in by thi creature who remind him of hi decea ed wife, that he would ignore the po ibility that he i ju t a dangerou a the criminal he harbor ?A the murder in the de ert multiply, Hackberry plumb the depth of man inhumanity to man from killer -for-hire, to the U.S. Ling denie having een the men from the de ert victim or perpetrator but there i omething in her teely demeanor and ari tocratic beauty that compel Hackberry to warn her about her own afety and to return to her home again and again a the inve tigation unfold. Holland inve tigation lead him to the home of Anton Ling, a regal, my teriou Chine e woman whom the local refer to a La Magdalena and who i known for heltering illegal.

A Pam and Hack lowly extract the young man grue ome tale, it become clear that the de ert contain a multitude of criminal, including the return of erial murderer Preacher Jack Collin, (whom The New York Time called one of Burke mo t in pired villain ). A &nb p Fea t Day of Fool &nb p open, a local drunk named Danny Boy Lorca i trapped behind an arroyo, watching a a man i tortured to death by a group of bandit who e bare-che ted, bloodthir ty ringleader appear to Danny Boy the Devil incarnate.Danny Boy haul him elf to town and beg Pam Tibb to lock him up in the drunk tank, even though by now, he appear dead ober. Still mourning the lo of hi cheri hed wife, Rie, and locked in a perilou almo t-romance with hi Deputy Pam Tibb, a woman many decade hi junior, Hackberry feed off of the deed of evil men to keep hi own demon at bay. The New Orlean Time -Picayune on RAIN GODSSheriff Hackberry Holland patrol a mall Southwe t Texa border town with a deep and abiding re pect for the citizen in hi care. There omething o winning about Hackberry Holland, omething o perfect for the time in which were reading.

Feast day of fools by james lee burke