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Harbor Lights by James Lee Burke
A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke
Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of
American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the
marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and
trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge.
As an atmosphere of suspicion pervades their Louisiana town, a boy and his father watch a German
submarine sink an oil tanker. A girl is beaten up outside a bar as her university-professor father
navigates new love and threats from a group of neo-Nazis. A pair of undercover union organizers
are hired to break colts for a Hollywood actor, whose “Western hero” façade hides darkness.
An oil rig worker witnesses a horrific attack on a local village while on a job in South America
and seeks justice through one final act of bravery.
With his nuanced characters, complex prose, and ability to write shocking violence in the most evocative settings, James Lee Burke’s singular skills are on display in this superb anthology. Harbor Lights unfolds in stories that crackle and reverberate as unexpected heroes emerge.
Harbor Lights by James Lee Burke
