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Rent Lay Down My Sword and Shield
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Narrator: Will Patton
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: Feb 2010
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $39.99
Discs: 8
Synopsis
'As I stood there on my front porch that hot, breathless July day, leaning against the column with the six bullet holes, now worn and smooth, I could see Hack's whitewashed marker under the pin oaks in the Holland family cemetery... Four generations of my family were buried there.'
Hack Holland is a product of the South, both old and new. Hard-drinking ex-POW and wealthy, progressive Democrat, he stands in the long shadow cast by his ancestors. When Holland's candidacy for a congressional seat brings him increasingly into conflict with those around him, his almost unwitting involvement with a violent civil rights conflict forces him to reassess his future - and his past...
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by James Lee Burke
When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border, he'd hoped to leave certain things behind: his checkered...
by John Sandford
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by Robert B. Parker
The last time Jesse Stone, police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts, saw Wilson 'Crow' Cromartie, the Apache hit man was racing away in a speedboat...
by Michael Connelly
The man most hated by the LAPD - a black lawyer who has made his name by bringing lawsuits alleging racism and brutality by police officers - has been...
by James Lee Burke
Beloved Burke hero Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to New Iberia to solve a series of grisly murders.
by John Sandford
Charlie Pope, a recently released rapist/murderer from St. John's Security Hospital, has removed his electronic surveillance ankle bracelet and...