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BURNING MOON: A Wil Hardesty Novel
by Richard Barre
Capra Press, May 2003
330 pages
$25.95
ISBN: 1592660118


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Wil Hardesty has lost nearly everything, including himself. It's been a long, hard struggle to win back enough control to find a sort of peace he can live with, to leave his ghosts in the past. He may not be exactly happy, but he's still here.

And then one warm afternoon, a Vietnamese fisherman asks him to prove that the son he lost to an accident at sea didn't die without help. Wil, too, has had a son claimed by the ocean. Is he really ready to face that kind of loss again?

This book grabs you, gives you a breath, then yanks you back up by the hair. There are as many different undercurrents in play as you'll find in the ocean itself. Wil spins farther out on the edge, working harder to right wrongs beyond his control and find a line his conscience can walk with every unexpected layer and level of corruption he encounters. The story line is deceptively simple, deliciously complex, and even occasionally Zen.

Shamus Award winning author Richard Barre writes with a unique style. His characters can give off enough raw intensity that the prose actually feels jagged to read, or slip so far into the shadows that their soft, slightly disconnected dialogue is lighter and more elusive than the faintest wisp of smoke. He's given us a powerful, atmospheric fourth entry in the Wil Hardesty series and a beautiful example of what crime fiction is all about.

Reviewed by Jenifer Nightingale, June 2003

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