Harbor Lights

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (Denver Post), the New York Times  bestselling James Lee BurkeHarbor 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 revengeA boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oiltanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruintheir 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.