Cimarron Rose: A Billy Bob Holland Novel (A Holland Family Novel)

Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke. Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer, former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland, is convinced of Lucas’s innocence—but proving it means unearthing the truth from the seething mass of deceit and corruption that spreads like wildfire in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else’s business. Billy Bob’s relationship with Lucas’s family is not an easy one. Years back he was a close friend of Mrs. Smothers—too close, according to her husband. But when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighboring cell in the local lock-up, he himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death, and Billy Bob incurs enemies far more dangerous than any he faced as a Ranger. With the same electric language and hard-edged style that brought James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux novels to the forefront of American crime fiction, Cimarron Rose explodes with a harsh, evocative setting and unforgettable characters. Small-town attorney Billy Bog Holland has haunting secrets-and enemies more lethal than when he was a gun-carrying Texas Ranger. When Vernon Smother's stepson Lucas is charged with a young woman's brutal murder, Billy Bob must come to the teenager's defense-for Lucas is actually Billy Bob's illegitimate son. In a town where the powerful exploit the innocent with impunity, Billy Bob must stir up a passel of would-be killers-from wealthy, willful Darl Vanzandt to bitter ex-con Garland T. Moon to the privileged youths of the elite East End-to shoot down a murder rap and redeem his own scarred past When his illegitimate son is wrongly accused of murder, Billy Bob Holland stands alone against the ruthless powers controlling the small town of Deaf Smith, Texas, as his investigation uncovers deeply rooted, high-level corruption, violence, and murder Former Texas Ranger Billy Holland, now a lawyer, is hired to defend a teenage boy accused of killing his girlfriend. It is a family affair of sorts, the man who hired Holland being the boy's stepfather. The real father is Holland