Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel

Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel

From â€œAmericaâ€™s best novelistâ€ (The Denver Post): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast.

It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clydeâ€™s stolen automobile.

Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine, escape certain death in the Battle of the Bulge and encounter a beautiful young woman named Rosita Lowenstein hiding in a deserted extermination camp. Eventually, Weldon and Rosita fall in love and marry and, with Hershel, return to Texas to seek their fortunes.

There, they enter the domain of jackals known as the oil business. They meet Roy Wiseheartâ€”a former Marine aviator haunted with guilt for deserting his squadron leader over the South Pacificâ€”and Royâ€™s wife Clara, a vicious anti-Semite who is determined to make Weldon and Rositaâ€™s life a nightmare. It will be the frontier justice upheld by Weldonâ€™s grandfather, Texas lawman Hackberry Holland, and the legendary antics of Bonnie and Clyde that shape Weldonâ€™s plans for saving his family from the evil forces that lurk in peacetime America and threaten to destroy them all.

Country	USA
Author	James Lee Burke
Binding	Audio CD
EAN	9781442369924
Edition	Unabridged
ISBN	1442369922
Label	Simon & Schuster Audio
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster Audio
NumberOfItems	11
NumberOfPages	11
PublicationDate	2014-07-15
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Audio
ReleaseDate	2014-07-15
Studio	Simon & Schuster Audio

Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel

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