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Title: House of the Rising Sun

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Will Patton

Format: Abridged

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-15

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Includes and exclusive interview with James Lee Burke!

New York Times best seller James Lee Burke returns with his latest masterpiece, the story of a father and son separated by war and circumstance - and whose encounter with the legendary Holy Grail will change their lives forever.

From its opening scene in revolutionary Mexico to the Battle of the Marne in 1918 and on to the bordellos and saloons of San Antonio during the reign of the Hole in the Wall Gang, House of the Rising Sun is an epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance, and retribution that follows Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland on his journey to reunite with his estranged son, Ishmael, a captain in the United States Army.

After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Hackberry escapes the country in possession of a stolen artifact, earning the ire of a bloodthirsty Austrian arms dealer who then places Hack's son, Ishmael, squarely in the crosshairs of a plot to recapture his prize, believed to be the mythic cup of Christ.

Along the way, we meet three extraordinary women: Ruby Dansen, the Danish immigrant who is Ishmael's mother and Hackberry's one true love; Beatrice DeMolay, a brothel madam descended from the crusader knight who brought the shroud of Turin back from the Holy Land; and Maggie Bassett, one-time lover of the Sundance Kid, whose wiles rival those of Lady Macbeth. In her own way, each woman will aid Hackberry in his quest to reconcile with Ishmael, to vanquish their enemies, and to return the Grail to its rightful place.

House of the Rising Sun is James Lee Burke's finest novel to date and a thrilling entry into the Holland family saga that continued most recently with Wayfaring Stranger, which the New York Times Book Review described as "saturated with the romance of the past while mournfully attuned to the unholy menace of the present".

Members Reviews:

Holland is To Texas What Robicheaux is to New Orleans

Anyone who had read anything by Mr. Burke knows that he is one of the best. He's best known for his twenty-some Robicheaux detective novels set mostly in New Orleans. This series follows Hackberry Holland, a mostly crazed Texas boy with a strong sense of morality and a lot of flaws. He's overly committed to drink, is close to hopeless with women and has no sense of proportion when it comes to his personal well-being. In this one his son Ishmael, from whom he's been estranged not entirely because his own actions, comes home from war at the turn on the 20th. century and is kidnapped by a former wife and her business partner, an Austrian arms dealer that Holland has undermined in the past by sabotaging an arms shipment and stealing his beloved religious icon, a chalice possibly once used by Jesus himself. All manner of mayhem ensues, as might be expected. To those new to Mr. Burke, you don't read his books just for the story. You read them because of the writing. He is one of the very few writers of "literary" novels in the detective/action genre. His prose sparkles with keen insights and mostly stands with the best, regardless of genre. But his protagonists have a lot of rough edges.