The setting of Feast Day of Fools is a small town in Texas, near the Mexican border. The main character, Sheriff Hackberry Holland, a troubled North Korea veteran, has lost his wife years ago. He has feelings for his colleague, Pam, who is much younger than him. However, soon he meets a stern Chinese lady Anton Ling who reminds him of his dead wife. Ling is known for her habit of hiding illegals, and is now a suspect of an ugly crime: Danny Boy Lorca, once a boxer and recently an alcoholic, has witnessed that a psychopath named Krill tormented, dismembered, and killed a man somewhere in the desert, Lorca has reported the case - and some proof points at Ling herself; perhaps she has to do something with the gruesome murder...
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
James Lee Burke - Feast Day of Fools, A Great Crime Thriller Novel
James Lee Burke is an American crime thriller author, the writer of thirty great crime stories. His newest thriller novel, Feast Day of Fools, is already a best-selling book and was selected Amazon Best Books of the Month in September; which is no wonder, since it is has a great plot and a fine protagonist.


The setting of Feast Day of Fools is a small town in Texas, near the Mexican border. The main character, Sheriff Hackberry Holland, a troubled North Korea veteran, has lost his wife years ago. He has feelings for his colleague, Pam, who is much younger than him. However, soon he meets a stern Chinese lady Anton Ling who reminds him of his dead wife. Ling is known for her habit of hiding illegals, and is now a suspect of an ugly crime: Danny Boy Lorca, once a boxer and recently an alcoholic, has witnessed that a psychopath named Krill tormented, dismembered, and killed a man somewhere in the desert, Lorca has reported the case - and some proof points at Ling herself; perhaps she has to do something with the gruesome murder...
The setting of Feast Day of Fools is a small town in Texas, near the Mexican border. The main character, Sheriff Hackberry Holland, a troubled North Korea veteran, has lost his wife years ago. He has feelings for his colleague, Pam, who is much younger than him. However, soon he meets a stern Chinese lady Anton Ling who reminds him of his dead wife. Ling is known for her habit of hiding illegals, and is now a suspect of an ugly crime: Danny Boy Lorca, once a boxer and recently an alcoholic, has witnessed that a psychopath named Krill tormented, dismembered, and killed a man somewhere in the desert, Lorca has reported the case - and some proof points at Ling herself; perhaps she has to do something with the gruesome murder...
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