Lansdale, Joe R.,   1951- <br/><br/>
The Thicket - A Novel  
Joe R. Lansdale.  
 - First Mulholland Books paperback edition.  
 - New York :   Mulholland Books / Little Brown and Company,   2014.  
 - 340, 12 pages ;   21 cm  
<br/><br/> "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."--  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780316188449  0316188441 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016814673  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Orphans --Fiction. --Fiction.<br/>Kidnapping <br/>Kidnapping --Fiction.<br/>Orphans --Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Texas, East --Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Fiction.<br/>Thrillers (Fiction).<br/>Action and adventure fiction.<br/>Detective and mystery fiction.<br/>Suspense fiction.<br/>Adventure fiction. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3562.A557  / T55 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.54