
Sour Lake
Or, The Beast
by Bruce McCandles III
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Pub Date Dec 01 2011 | Archive Date Oct 31 2021
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Description
BOOK TWO IN THE SERIES, IN THE LAND OF DEAD HORSES, TO BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD IN SEPTEMBER!
It’s 1911. Someone, or something, is leaving the good citizens of East Texas's Ochiltree County savagely mutilated and drained of blood. Slow-talking Sheriff Reeves Duncan needs to put an end to the murders, and soon. But it won’t be easy. This is the Big Thicket, dark and brooding, haunted by racial tensions and economic despair. Fortunately, Sheriff Duncan can count on the assistance of an undersized but tough-as-rawhide Texas Ranger, two physicians, a mechanical wunderkind, and a soft-spoken idiot savant who knows the sloughs and baygalls of the Thicket like his own backyard. This league of unimpressive gentlemen is about to be tested by the cunning and ferocity of an enemy that walks by night--and the tentacles of a desperate sectarian plot that threatens the very survival of the human race.
Advance Praise
"Set in 1911, Sour Lake follows a set of grisly and bizarre murders in the Big Thicket section of Southeast Texas. Sour Lake pulled me in so deep and fast I'm not entirely sure I remember anything about the day I sat reading his incredible book other than the sound of rapidly turned pages. Texas deserves its monsters to be like everything else here, big and badass. McCandless delivers perfectly."
--The Houston Press
"A well-executed journey into the macabre."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"Not that long ago, this part of the country was a lawless, treacherous place...Sour Lake is a cautionary tale for today."
-- San Antonio Express-News
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