The ThicketIn The Thicket, award winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale lets loose like never before, in a rip roaring adventure set at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom, the perfect introduction to an acclaimed writer whose work has been called "as funny and frightening as anything that could have been dreamed up by the Brothers Grimm or Mark Twain" (New York Times Book Review) Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother