TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lansdale,Joe R.
TI  - The Thicket - A Novel
SN  - 9780316188449
AV  - PS3562.A557 T55 2014
U1  - 813/.54 23/eng/20250219
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Mulholland Books / Little Brown and Company
KW  - Orphans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Kidnapping
KW  - Texas, East
KW  - Adventure fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Suspense fiction
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Action and adventure fiction
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
N2  - "Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy.  His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-of-the-century East Texas -- orphaning him and his younger sister, Lula. Then catastrophe strikes on the way to their uncle's farm, when a traveling group of bank-robbing bandits murder Jack's grandfather and kidnap his sister. With no elders left for miles, Jack must grow up fast and enlist a band of heroes the likes of which has never been seen if his sister stands any chance at survival. But the best he can come up with is a charismatic, bounty-hunting dwarf named Shorty, a grave-digging son of an ex-slave named Eustace, and a street-smart woman-for-hire named Jimmie Sue who's come into some very intimate knowledge about the bandits (and a few members of Jack's extended family to boot). In the throes of being civilized, East Texas is still a wild, feral place. Oil wells spurt liquid money from the ground. But as Jack's about to find out, blood and redemption rule supreme."--
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