The thicket
By: Joe R. Lansdale
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Mulholland Books, Little Brown and Company
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780316188456
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Orphans; Kidnapping; Mystery fiction; Fiction
Description: "Jack Parker knows all too well how treacherous turn-of-the-century East Texas can be. His parents did not survive a smallpox epidemic. His grandfather was murdered. Now his sister Lula has been kidnapped by a criminal who may believe wearing a dead man's clothes protects him from death. With bounty hunter Shorty, a charismatic and cunning dwarf, and Eustace, a gravedigging son of an ex-slave, the heartbroken young Jack sets off on an epic quest to rescue his sister from the corrupt men who control much of the new territory. In the throes of being civilized, East Texas is still a wild feral place. Oil wells spurt liquid money from the ground, but blood and redemption rule supreme"--