Dirty White Boys Author:Stephen Hunter 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 e... more »yes. 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....« less
I did not like the criminals, but I did not like the protagonist Oklahoma State Trooper (our hero) either. I'm supposed to really hate the bad guys and love the good guys. It just did not work for me.
DIRTY WHITE BOYS By Stephen Hunter, Read By Will Patton, 1994, Abridged, approximately three hours, ISBN 1-57042-192-7. 3 psychopaths stage a daring break from a maximum and security prison. Their freedom results an unprecedented killing spree that soaks Oklahoma in blood. Bud Pewtie, a tough school headed veteran detective sets off on their trail. When the three killers threaten the lives of his teenage son and the woman loves, Bud's determination to track them becomes personal. The suspenseful climax is intense and powerful.
