Soon to be a major motion picture starring Peter Dinklage ALA Reading List Award for History, Short List Love and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom from Joe Lansdale, a true American original (Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box).
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.
In The Thicket, award-winning novelist Joe R.
Lansdale lets loose like never before, in a rip-roaring adventure equal parts True Gritand Stand by Me--the perfect introduction to an acclaimed writer whose work has been called as funny and frightening as anything that could have been dreamed up by the Brothers Grimm--or Mark Twain (New York Times Book Review).
About the Author: Joe R.
Lansdale is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Edge of Dark Water, the Edgar Award-winning The Bottoms, Sunset and Sawdust, and Leather Maiden.
He has received nine Bram Stoker Awards, the American Mystery Award, the British Fantasy Award, the.
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