title: Shades of Ecclesiastes: Essays from a Texas Sportsman
author:  Jason Patterson 
description: Jason Patterson is a husband, father of three daughters, and avid outdoorsman that spends most of his days dreaming up ways to make a living hunting and fishing. Fortunately, he also has a passion for history and education that allows him to have a more practical job, like teaching. For nearly the past two decades, he has been a history teacher for the Aledo Independent School District.
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  _Titles by Thomas Harris_
  
  
  BLACK SUNDAY
  
    
  
    
  RED DRAGON
  
    
  
    
  THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
  
    
  
    
  HANNIBAL
  
  
  
  
  
  _Titles by Thomas Harris_
  
  
  BLACK SUNDAY
  
    
  
    
  RED DRAGON
  
    
  
    
  THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
  
    
  
    
  HANNIBAL
  
  
  
  
  
  And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to  
  know madness and folly:  
  I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
  
  
    
  
  —ECCLESIASTES
  
  
  
  
  
  ![007](harr_9781440657795_oeb_007_r1.gif)
  
  
  
  
  
  ![008](harr_9781440657795_oeb_008_r1.gif)
  
  
  
  
  
  **1**
  
  
  Will Graham sat Crawford down at a picnic table between the house and the
  ocean and gave him a glass of iced tea.
  
  
  Jack Crawford looked at the pleasant old house, salt-silvered wood in the
  clear light. “I should have caught you in Marathon when you got off work,” he
  said. “You don’t want to talk about it here.”
  
  
  “I don’t want to talk about it anywhere, Jack. You’ve got to talk about it, so
  let’s have it. Just don’t get out any pictures. If you brought pictures, leave
  them in the briefcase—Molly and Willy will be