A Texas teenager's fateful meeting with Bonnie and Clyde precedes his WWII service, where he rescues a comrade and discovers a survivor in a Nazi camp, before they build an oil empire amid.
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A Texas teenager's fateful meeting with Bonnie and Clyde precedes his WWII service, where he rescues a comrade and discovers a survivor in a Nazi camp, before they build an oil empire amid.
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James Lee Burke's new novel begins in West Texas in 1934, and the story begins with a fateful encounter between the narrator, Weldon Avery Holland, and the notorious Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker - a meeting which ends with the sixteen-year-old Holland putting a bullet through the windscreen of Clyde's stolen automobile. Weldon's education in the evils that men - and women - are capable of continues as we move to the Ardennes Forest and the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, where Second Lieutenant W...
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Romance & sex
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Central romance develops between Weldon and Rosita; they marry after meeting during the war.
Violence & gore
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Graphic WWII combat, executions of wounded soldiers, and discovery of an extermination camp with stacked bodies.
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Depictions of Nazi Germany, WWII battles, and postwar corporate greed in the oil industry.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Executions of wounded soldiers and discovery of an extermination camp during wartime.
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