They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary--three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them.... Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars--for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose.... Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him.... Richard's survival hangs on a sketch: a crude drawing of a lion and a half-naked woman. For this Lamar has let Richard live... ...
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They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary--three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them.... Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars--for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose.... Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him.... Richard's survival hangs on a sketch: a crude drawing of a lion and a half-naked woman. For this Lamar has let Richard live... Armed to the teeth, Lamar and his boys have cut a path of terror across the Southwest, and pushed one good cop into a crisis of honor and conscience. Trooper Bud Pewtie should have died once at Lamar's hands. Now they're about to meet again. And this time, only one of them will walk away....
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A little different than other Hunter books (and I have some problem with his description of a triology), but just a top notch read. One of those you wish you could grab everytime.
RandyLarkin
Jan 8, 2010
"...Get your hands dirty..then reach for the stars
Lemar Pye, his mentally retarded cousin and a third man escape from McAlester State Penn, a maximum security prison. Lemar had just killed a prisoner so he had nothing to loose. The men go on a killing and robbery spree in Oklahoma and North Texas.
Looking for weapons, they stop at the ranch of Bill Stepford.
State police sgt. Bud Pewtie and his young partner, Ted Pepper, happen to stop at the ranch after a waitress at a restaurnat asked them to see if Bill was okay. He had coffee every morning and didn't show up this day and didn't answer his phone.
Not suspecting that they are approaching cold blooded killers, the police officers are ambushed. Pepper is killed and Pye injured.
Stephen Hunter gives his readers an excellent, well plotted story of the escape, the horrors that the fugutives commit and the relentless pursuit.
Pewtie is a self centered egotist who is having an affair with his young partner's wife. His lieutenant is an alcoholic and Lemar Pye is so evil that the memory is his actions will stay in the reader"s mind for a long time.
