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Rain Gods

By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
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The second novel in the highly acclaimed Hackberry Holland series.

Hackberry Holland is a man haunted by a chequered and traumatic past. A former POW from the Korean War, he has left everything behind to become sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas. Hack soon finds himself dealing with more than just his own demons when nine dead prostitutes are dug up behind a run-down church. The search for justice - and revenge - pits Hack against hired guns, drug dealers, and a psychotic killer known as The Preacher.

As Holland tries to end the killings and bring justice to the dead girls, he discovers just how dark the deepest corners of the human heart can get, and how redemption can come in the form of a woman's love...

Praise for James Lee Burke:

“Richly deserves to be described now as one of the finest crime writers America has ever produced.” DAILY MAIL©2009 James Lee Burke (P)2009 Recorded Books LLC Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Heartfelt Fiction
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A good storyline, with believable characters. The narration by Tom Stechulte was excellent, and he did a good job of voicing the individual characters. I'm Looking forward to listening to the next story in the series.

Good story

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I love listening to the guy who narrates this, he also did No Country for Old Men and funnily enough there was a similarity in one of the main baddies to the McCarthy murderer.

A group of Asian women are found buried in a church's grounds. The Sheriff is a grizzled Korean POW still stuck in the past, while a local Afghan vet is somehow involved in the women's deaths.

Beware the Preacher

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Enjoyable if a little violent in places story set in Texas. Gripping till the end and Burke is a master at setting the tone so you feel in the element with him and the book’s characters.

Gripping story

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This is a really good story and the narrator is perfect for it, but the author must have been the star pupil at the Analogies-R-Us school of writing. Every single scene or piece of action had an analogy, even the food that was being eaten. I realise that when reading or listening to a book that there has to be a certain amount of description or scene setting, but this was ridiculous, to the extent that sometimes one analogy wasn't enough for a scene and in case we "didn't get" what was being described, another analogy was given. It was hard to concentrate on what would have been an excellent story, because it kept wandering off into yet another over descriptive sunrise or plate of pasta. I don't mind a book being slow, when the plot or characters are being built as this adds to the story, however this author's style really detracted from it.

Great story, good narration, but......

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No matter how I tried this book failed to keep my interest. It should be interesting, the plot is good but everything is so drawn out that it fails miserably.

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