(New York: Hyperion, 1997).

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, JAMES LEE BURKE AND A VERY FINE FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Winner of the 1998 Edgar Award for Best Novel
When Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland is hired following the murder of a teenage girl, he isn t just defending a client He s defending his son.
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 won t be easy amid the deceit and corruption that spreads like wildfire in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else s business. That includes the poorly kept secret that Billy Bob isn t just Lucas s lawyer but, as the result of an extramarital affair, the boy s father. As Billy Bob seeks to clear his son s name, he attracts enemies far more dangerous than any he ever faced as a Ranger. JLB. Item #32734

First Edition, First Issue, One of 150 numbered copies only, SIGNED by the author. 8vo, publisher's original red cloth, the upper cover with Texas Rangers tipped on designed plate in gilt and black, author's signature in gilt, the spine panel lettered and decorated in gilt, in the original red cloth covered slipcase. [xii], 288 pp. A pristine and essentially mint, copy, both inside and out.