Both mystical and violent, Burke's writing leaves you with Texas grit caught in your teeth. Preacher Jack Collins returns hunting those he considers even more evil than himself. And Hackberry Holland is hunting him, along with a man who would crucify another preacher in his own church.

The one I thing I wish is that when Burke decided to go back to the Hollands in Texas with Rain Gods that he had given Hackberry a son and made him the protagonist. At somewhere between 75 and 78, Hack can't really carry this series much further.