Ex-Texas ranger billy bob holland makes his third appearance (after and the edgar award-winning ) in James Lee Burke's dark, sorrowful, appropriately titled new novel,. This time out, Burke takes holland out of the famil...Ex-Texas ranger billy bob holland makes his third appearance (after and the edgar award-winning ) in James Lee Burke's dark, sorrowful, appropriately titled new novel,. This time out, Burke takes holland out of the familiar environs of deaf smith, Texas, and moves him to montana, where he becomes enmeshed in an interlocking series of brutal -- and brutalizing -- events.