num_pages: 400
description: '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...
language: English
title: Lay Down My Sword And Shield
titlecomplete: Lay Down My Sword And Shield (Hackberry Holland, #1)
genres: Fiction, Politics, Mystery, Thriller, Westerns, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Historical Fiction, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2676
series: Hackberry Holland, Holland Family (Hackberry, Billy Bob, and Saga)
publisher: Hyperion