01771cam a2200349 i 4500 616191173 TxAuBib 20230118120000.0 130521s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013016949 9780316188456 hbk. 031618845X hbk. (OCoLC)828245717 TxAuBib rda Lansdale, Joe R., 1951- The thicket / Joe R. Lansdale. First edition. New York : Mulholland Books, Little Brown and Company, 2013. 340 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Jack Parker knows all too well how treacherous turn-of-the-century East Texas can be. His parents did not survive a smallpox epidemic. His grandfather was murdered. Now his sister Lula has been kidnapped by a criminal who may believe wearing a dead man's clothes protects him from death. 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. In the throes of being civilized, East Texas is still a wild feral place. Oil wells spurt liquid money from the ground, but blood and redemption rule supreme"-- Provided by publisher. 20230118. Orphans Fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Texas, East Fiction. Action and adventure fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) TXDAP