James Lee Burke

Harbor Lights -- James Lee Burke, Hardcover

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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


A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil
tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin
their family. 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, lyrical 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.



Author: James Lee Burke
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 01/23/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.90w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780802160966

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2023 pg. 9
Publishers Weekly 10/16/2023
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2023
Booklist 11/01/2023 pg. 23
Library Journal 12/01/2023 pg. 90

About the Author

James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

Product Tags:

Atlantic Monthly Press, Crime, Fiction, Fiction - General, Hardcover, James Lee Burke, Short stories, Short Stories (single author), Small Town & Rural, Thrillers

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