Shorty seemed to want to kill, but Jack was a Parker and that wasn't how Parkers did things. He was meeting with a dwarf.Įustace seemed a little unstable. As they neared Shorty's home, Jack saw a child peering through a telescope and it took him a minute to understand he wasn't meeting with a child. With the hog tagging alongside, Eustace took Jack down a "rabbit path" to meet with Shorty.
The man introduced himself as Eustace, and told Jack that he was a tracker and could help him find the men who took Lula - but it wouldn't come cheap and he wouldn't do it unless they could "get Shorty to sign up." His Grandpa dead, his sister gone, 17-year-old Jack ended up in a nearby town where he hoped to find the law but instead found a dead sheriff, a black boar hog with tusks, and a tall man who was commencing to bury the aftermath of mob justice. And that might've been true - they'd never know because, while crossing the Sabine River, they were attacked by bandits and Lula was kidnapped. Right after Jack Parker and his Grandpa finished burying Jack's Ma and Pa, dead from the disease, Grandpa decided that Jack and his little sister, Lula, would be better off in Kansas City with their Aunt Tessle. Lansdale, you hope you'll never have to know. You'd like to think they'd even take a bullet for you but, as in the new novel, "The Thicket" by Joe R. They'll loan you five minutes or five dollars, tell you when your ideas are good and your breath is bad, and can be counted on, but never out.
More tracks like The Thicket by Joe R.They're the ones who keep your secrets, or your car keys when you need them to.Lansdale, Read by Will Collyer - Audiobook Excerpt Playlists containing The Thicket by Joe R.Users who reposted The Thicket by Joe R.But blood and redemption rule supreme.Īvailable NOW from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in hardcover and ebook from Mulholland Books. Oil wells spurt liquid money from the ground. In the throes of being civilized, East Texas is still a wild, feral place. With bounty hunter Shorty, a charismatic and cunning dwarf, and Eustace, a gravedigging son of an ex-slave, the heartbroken young Jack sets off on an epic quest to rescue his sister from the corrupt men who control much of the new territory. Now his sister Lula has been kidnapped by a criminal who may believe wearing a dead man's clothes protects them both from death. His parents did not survive a smallpox epidemic. Jack Parker knows all too well how treacherous turn-of-the-century East Texas can be. Performed by Will Collyer.Īcclaimed author Joe Lansdale's landmark and mythic tale of love and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom. This is an excerpt from THE THICKET, from acclaimed author Joe Landsdale.
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