Publication

2015 - Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), England

Language

English

Word Count

156,250 words, Guess

Page Count

625 pages

Identifiers

and 11 more
  • Better World Books9781409128830
  • Better World BooksKO-541-159
  • Better World BooksKO-801-290
  • Better World Booksko-424-215
  • Better World BooksKO-511-189
  • Better World BooksKO-890-519
  • Better World BooksKO-764-762
  • Better World BooksKO-798-644
  • Better World BooksKP-050-627
  • Better World Bookskp-000-493
  • Open LibraryOL28272586M

Classifications

  • DDC813.54
  • LCCPS3552.U723

Description

"It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when 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 as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clyde's stolen automobile. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine, escape certain death in the Battle of the Bulge and encounter a beautiful young woman named Rosita Lowenstein hiding in a deserted extermination camp. Eventually, Weldon and Rosita fall in love and marry and, with Hershel, return to Texas to seek their fortunes. There, they enter the domain of jackals known as the oil business. They meet Roy Wiseheart--a former Marine aviator haunted with guilt for deserting his squadron leader over the South Pacific--and Roy's wife Clara, a vicious anti-Semite who is determined to make Weldon and Rosita's life a nightmare. It will be the frontier justice upheld by Weldon's grandfather, Texas lawman Hackberry Holland, and the legendary antics of Bonnie and Clyde that shape Weldon's plans for saving his family from the evil forces that lurk in peacetime America and threaten to destroy them all" --

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Wayfaring strangerOrion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )2015

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