Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel (A Holland Family Novel)

Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel (A Holland Family Novel)

In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable lifeâ€”connecting a fateful encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to heroic acts at the Battle of the Bulge and finally to the high-stakes gambles and cutthroat players who ushered in the dawn of the American oil industry.

In 1934, 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 with Weldon firing a gun and being unsure whether it hit its mark.

Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland barely survives the Battle of the Bulge, in the process saving the lives of his sergeant, Hershel Pine, and a young Spanish prisoner of war, Rosita Lowensteinâ€”a woman who holds the same romantic power over him as the strawberry blonde Bonnie Parker, and is equally mysterious. The three return to Texas where Weldon and Hershel get in on the ground floor of the nascent oil business.

In just a few yearsâ€™ time Weldon will spar with the jackals of the industry, rub shoulders with dangerous men, and win and lose fortunes twice over. But it is the prospect of losing his one true love that will spur his most reckless, courageous act yetâ€”one that takes its inspiration from that encounter long ago with the outlaws of his youth.

A tender love story and pulse-pounding thriller that crosses continents and decades of American history, Wayfaring Stranger â€œis a sprawling historical epic full of courage and loyalty and optimism and good-heartedness that reads like an ode to the American Dreamâ€ (Benjamin Percy, Poets & Writers).
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-07-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476710792

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-07-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476710792

Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel (A Holland Family Novel)

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