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Over the years I have read all the James Lee Burke novels featuring Dave Robicheaux. I decided to start reading his other novels. When I describe Burke to someone who hasn’t yet read him, I always say...when you read a paragraph written by Burke you come away thinking you have just read poetry. Cimmaron Rose does not disappoint. The writing is as eloquent. Billy Bob has his faults but remains an hero in the vein of Dave Robicheaux. Burke is and will remain my favorite author and he isn’t capable of writing a bad book.


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Cimarron Rose Billy Bob Holland James Lee Burke 9780786889303 Books Reviews

Reading the descriptive words of James Lee Burke comes as close to planting your own feet in the footfalls of the characters in his books.
Add this book to the huge library of five star books authored
by James Lee Burke.
Quite a story with twists and hard turns by characters both good and evil. Luckily the story ends with some hope that real evil is self destructive,
Like an actor, type-cast and losing steam, Dave Robicheaux's (briefly) on vacation, until the muse is rekindled. Instead we have Billy Bob, a ragged around the edges guy, whose nightmares, are thankfully fewer than our Crescent City pals.
Like many, I've read all JLB, in chronological order, and like many, I've rushed sleeplessly through a story, then more leisurely re-read each to savor the fine writing and local flavor.
I could eat chicken-fried steak or nopalitas with Billy Bob as well as piping hot beignets and po' boys with Dave. The tarnished hero, tilting at personal windmills is the common thread, here. The story is engrossing and tightly plotted. Here here, James Lee for trying something new. I enjoy Dave Robicheaux but I am willing to try something else-reaching a little outside a tried and true series to devour a new treat. Excellent read and ultimately rewarding on many levels.
I have read every one of James Lee Burke's Dave Robichieax novels and thought all were classics but had never read one his Billy Bob Holland books. Shame on me! This, the first in the series, is terrific. I will be adding the rest in the series to my reading list immediately. Burke never disappoints. Complicated heroes and vile villains will keep you entertained until the last page.
Sometimes you find an author whose work is so fine s/he makes you ashamed of your own pitiful scribbling. James Lee Burke does that for me. His book "Cimarron Rose" is a good example of his stellar performance.

"Cimarron Rose," one of Burke's Billy Bob Holland novels, is the story of Billy Bob's search for the killer of a killer and his adolescent associates when a teen age girl is killed in a hangout popular with teenagers wilding. In that, maestro Billy Bob Holland takes the lead defending an adolsecent whose lower class family background preselect him as victim. In the episode that follows Billy Bob kicks open a giant hole in town corruption, wealthy power and seemingly immoral leaders of the social upper crust.

Billy Bob, raw fisted and quick tempered, seems to embody the fighting truth seeker a la Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer of 50 years ago. This novel is replete with uncountable fist, knife, and gunfights, mano a mano among the bad guys of "Cimarron Rose."

In this novel, author Burke follows the progress of attorney Billy Bob Holland gathering evidence of his client's innocence and stirs up a hornets's nest of the rich and their ties with evil forces in American life. The plot and conflict=tension is further enhanced by Billy Bob's dead friend, a PTSD-like ghost enduced by a shoot out with drug runners in northern Mexico, and wisdom found in reading his father's diaries.

Author Burke's skills with characterization lie in his deft use of short descriptions such as "On the trial he met a hollow-eyed preacher whose face had been branded with red hot horseshoes by Comanches north of the Cimarron"; "L.Q. Navarro [the ghost partner] sat on top of a stall, the heels of his boots hooked onto a plank"; "Mary Beth Sweeny . . . still in uniform from the night shift, her thumbs hooked into the sides of her gun belt". With these short machine gun bursts of colorful description, author Burke develops his characters, depicts attitude, and progresses the action all in a single phrase.

Like the real estate legend of "location , location, location," in crime novels it's "plot, plot, plot." At that, James Lee Burk is the master plotster.

As conflict after conflict, each more life-threatening to allies, it's Billy Bob's personal and cool-headed rage that saves the day time to time. But, that's not to say his sticking his head into the lion's mouth is not dangerous -- because it IS dangerous, but author Burke has developed tough but likeable heroes and we fear for their lives.

Finally, James Lee Burke's "Cimarron Rose" will bowl you over with his "writerly" prose, i.e., control over language that literally sparkles with new views of life, e.g., "She pulled her T shirt over her head, her hair collapsing on her shoulders"; "he had crashed through the enemy line like a tank through a hedgerow"; "The headlights shone in my driveway, bounced across the chicken run and filled the barn and horse lot with shadows". If you like an unbridled wordsmith at the top of his game,you'll be as crazy as I am for the work of James Lee Burke. A solid read from the first word to the last.
Mr. Burke fills this novel with interesting smilies and metaphors to create an air of the rough characters in the little town of Deaf Smith, Texas. Billy Bob Holland is a lawyer haunted by the ghost of his former friend and Texas Ranger. When his unclaimed son is accused of murder, Billy Bob defends him, but in the process uncovers family secrets. Mr. Burke creates very interesting characters, especially Dark Vanzandt and Garland Moon.
Change the setting from Louisiana to Texas and you get Holland instead of Robicheaux, less drinking but the same plot line. But I don't read Burke for intricate plots, I read them for the characters and the action. And you get both in this book. Still, it's just Robicheaux in a different setting and without Clete Purcell.
Over the years I have read all the James Lee Burke novels featuring Dave Robicheaux. I decided to start reading his other novels. When I describe Burke to someone who hasn’t yet read him, I always say...when you read a paragraph written by Burke you come away thinking you have just read poetry. Cimmaron Rose does not disappoint. The writing is as eloquent. Billy Bob has his faults but remains an hero in the vein of Dave Robicheaux. Burke is and will remain my favorite author and he isn’t capable of writing a bad book.