My brother’s latest book has just been published as an Amazon Kindle offering and he very kindly allowed me to design the cover. After authoring a successful series of Texas-based murder mysteries, this is his book that sprang from the day that changed all our lives. Jim was on the 66th floor the south tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11.

“The mystery writer James Hime made his mark with The Night of the Dance (an Edgar finalist) and Scared Money, both heralded by other novelists and reviewers for memorable characters, taut prose, and a comedic take on how things and people work. Hime nailed dialects as if no one else had ever listened to Texans talk, and readers settled back to await more adventures of Jeremiah Spur and Clyde Thomas. Adventures will follow, we are assured, but Three Thousand Bridges is of a different order of achievement, not a mystery novel but a novel with mysteries. Its unlikely and at first unlikable hero, a Viet Nam veteran, is the outrageous and outraging Texas oil supply man, Cole Simms–a belated cousin, we recognize, of Mark Twain’s Pap Finn. In sculpted prose, pacing his revelations, Hime traces his bedeviled hero’s journey across the South just after 9/11, toward Ground Zero and toward self-insight. Hime, who escaped from the South Tower of the World Trade Center with a printout of The Night of the Dance after witnessing the crash of American Flight 11 into the North Tower, has created a classic narrative of transforming American experiences, personal and national. After its wide initial popularity, I predict, Three Thousand Bridges will endure in college classrooms as a powerful, accessible testimony about an unthinkable time.”

Hershel Parker, Melville biographer.

Via James Hime.