Another Kind of Eden
By James Lee Burke
- Release Date: 2021-08-17
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Description
New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s.
The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs.
Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but their romance is complicated by Joanne’s involvement with a shady professor who is mixed up with a drug-addled cult. When a sinister businessman and his son who wield their influence through vicious cruelty set their sights on Aaron, drawing him into an investigation of grotesque murders, it is clear that this idyllic landscape harbors tremendous power—and evil. Followed by a mysterious shrouded figure who might not be human, Aaron will have to face down all these foes to save the life of the woman he loves and his own.
The latest installment in James Lee Burke’s masterful Holland family saga, Another Kind of Eden is both riveting and one of Burke’s most ambitious works to date. It dismantles the myths of both the twentieth-century American West and the peace-and-love decade, excavating the beauty and idealism of the era to show the menace and chaos that lay simmering just beneath the surface.
Reviews
The greatest storyteller
5By Seamus AhocA slight change of pace from JLB, but still holds the same intensity and impact as those that came before. God bless him and grant eternal rest to Pamala.A good read, but...
4By GeauxChrisGeauxOverall I is a good read, but it's a bit disappointing.Mixed feelinge
3By Longhorn5555His writing, as always, is pure poetry. However, the supernatural bit ruins what would otherwise have been a good read. It pivots the reader from pure stark realism to silliness, and the whiplash is unwelcome. The entire story told in this particular book feels meandering, contrived at times, and incomplete, redeemed only by the absolute brilliance of his way with words.