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Wayfaring Stranger (2014)

von James Lee Burke

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Reihen: Holland Family Saga (1)

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"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" --… (mehr)
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It's no secret that I am bewitched with James Lee Burke's novels. Although I was in the midst of another book, I had to "play through" and read this first.

There was something different about this novel from the others. I can't quite put my finger on it but perhaps it had to do with war scenes. It captivated me. Loved the book. Might be one of the few in my life that I will reread again. ( )
  juju2cat | Jan 9, 2024 |
Unfortunately, James Lee Burke seems to have caught the dreaded Dick Francis literary disease, where one can only write a single basic plot over and over again. This is still an interesting book, but it very much follows the pattern of a number of his previous books with only minor variations. ( )
  danielskatz | Dec 26, 2023 |
The story started out beautifully, continued to hold me through the war story, and even after for a while. Then Mr. James Lee Burke started losing me. I could not understand why Weldon was so forgiving of evil , even as he and his wife were being destroyed. Everything started feeling like a soap opera , lots of drama between shallow characters. Grandfather and Rosita were the only ones who made any sense, the only ones who could fight without compromise. The end was so disappointing. Wayfaring Stranger would have made a great graphic novel. ( )
  juliechabon | Sep 12, 2022 |
I read the first 50 or so pages but couldn't get invested in the plot.
  NicholeReadsWithCats | Jun 17, 2022 |
Wow. I was lulled in by the voice of narrator Will Patton telling the story of Weldon's youth and time in World War II. Then, as things often do in a James Lee Burke novel, they take off zoooooom. Read the book. ( )
  nab6215 | Jan 18, 2022 |
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Patton, WillReaderCo-Autoreinige Ausgabenbestätigt

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"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" --

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