Feast Day of Fools

I've read Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke. Unlike a number of his books which I have read, I did not enjoy this one. The main character Sheriff Hackberry Holland is a very strong character of high integrity haunted by a past of which he is ashamed. In this book he is again faced with his nemesis, Preacher Jack Collins, a man who enjoys killing people who have done the wrong thing by him. But he has his own "honour" code. The books opens with a local drunk witnessing a particularly gruesome murder and the escape of another man from those murderers. It seems this "escapee" is a very valuable commodity to a number of "baddies" including the FBI. Sheriff Holland and his deputy (the romantic interest) must unravel the mystery of why this man is valuable and working out who is killing so many people to get him. There are so many "baddies" it is hard to keep track of them. This is a very violent story, so now I'm "over" James Lee Burke. Maybe it will appeal to men more?? 21/2/5