The Anahuac of 1972 is more than just an isolated outpost on Texas\'s Trinity Bay - it\'s a place where greed and justice uncomfortably intermingle, where the evangelical fervor of charismatic preachers resonate, where blacks and whites navigate a fragile co-existence, and where a murder leads to even darker mysteries than murder. and in the peace of a Central Texas ranch, currently resides in Austin, where he and his wife have built a long-standing law practice..
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Darling, who has lived within the legislative bustle of Washington, D.
His latest novel, Anahuac, serves as a sequel to Morgan\'s Point as well as its own fascinating tale.
His first novel, Morgan\'s Point, introduced readers to both the mid-\'60s rough-and-tumble world of the Houston courts where Darling came of age, and the Galveston Bay region that has long fascinated him.
Darling is a lifelong storyteller and very nearly a native Texan, arriving in his beloved state as an infant in 1942.
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His discoveries lead to entanglements in the very nature of good and evil, in a town steeped in a history that is unexpectedly but definitively drawing Ward in its narrative web.
Jim Ward, introduced in Morgan\'s Point as a young, idealistic Houston prosecutor, returns in Anahuac as an older, more conflicted, more complicated man, coming to Anahuac to defend a man who appears guilty of a horrible crime.
The Anahuac of 1972 is more than just an isolated outpost on Texas\'s Trinity Bay - it\'s a place where greed and justice uncomfortably intermingle, where the evangelical fervor of charismatic preachers resonate, where blacks and whites navigate a fragile co-existence, and where a murder leads to even darker mysteries than murder
