With Devil on The Wall, James Wake-

field Burke has solidified his reputation

as one of the nation s most important

writers of historical fiction.

His saga of the 1830s is a broad-

sweeping portrayal of the lives and times

of four men from four distinct regions of

the continent who are inexorably drawn

by fate - perhaps by the devil himself - to

a date with destiny and death.

Down different roads they come, each

driven by his own separate ambition,

strangers caught in a web of circumstan-

ces from which there is no escape. And

when their paths cross- as they must - it

is a confrontation, a duel of men among

men that has been carved forever into the

rich tapestry of Texas history.

No one researches the past like James

Wakefield Burke. And no one has ever

done a more admirable job of capturing

the essence, the magnitude, the indepen-

dent spirit of a bloody era where men

were sometimes heroes and sometimes

villains, but whose deeds can never be

quite forgotten.