James Lee Burke is the author of nineteen books, including the bestsellers Heartwood, Sunset Limited, Cimarron Rose, Cadillac Jukebox, Burning Angel, and Dixie City Jam. He lives with his wife in Missoula, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana.
"America's best novelist."
-- The Denver Post
"A thoroughly absorbing mystery packed with the colorful characters
and moral dilemmas that have turned Dave Robicheaux into one of the
more vivid literary creations of the last 20 years."
-- Daily News (New York)
"Nobody writes about the bad old days down South like James Lee
Burke."
-- The New York Times
"No other living writer has been more influential on the
contemporary crime novel than James Lee Burke.... This one is his
best."
-- Michael Connelly, author of Void Moon
Don't miss James Lee Burke's sensational bestsellers:
Heartwood
"A heartfelt, passionate book ... powerfully bittersweet."
-- The Seattle Times
Sunset Limited
"Splendidly atmospheric ... with dialogue so sharp you can shave
with it."
-- People
Available from Dell
HAfter the relatively lightweight Sunset Limited (1998), Cajun cop Dave Robicheaux returns in a powerhouse of a thriller that shows Burke writing near the peak of his form. Robicheaux faces his most personal case yet, when a pimp puts him on the trail of the truth behind his mother's long-ago disappearance. Meanwhile, he uncovers new evidence in the case of death-row inmate Letty Labiche, who took a mattock to the man who molested her as a child, state executioner Vachel Carmouche. Burke parades the usual cast of grotesques: feckless Louisiana governor Belmont Pugh; cold-blooded attorney general Connie Deshotel; sleazy police liaison officer Jim Gable, who "keeps the head of a Vietnamese soldier in a jar of chemicals"; and psychopathic hit man Johnny Remata, who acts as all-around avenging angel. Wife Bootsie's having had a fling with Gable drives Robicheaux into a jealous fury more than once, while daughter Alafair's flirtation with Johnny raises the temperature even higher. Old buddy Clete Purcell doesn't have a lot to do, other than to contribute to the general mayhem. Once Robicheaux learns that his mother fell afoul of a couple of New Orleans cops in the pay of the Giacano crime family, it's a simple matter of identifying the guilty pair and bringing them to justiceDor is it? Burke winds up an often convoluted and gratuitously violent plot with a dynamite ending that will leave readers feeling truly satisfied, if a bit shell-shocked. Major ad/promo; author tour. (Aug.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
"America's best novelist."
-- The Denver Post
"A thoroughly absorbing mystery packed with the colorful characters
and moral dilemmas that have turned Dave Robicheaux into one of the
more vivid literary creations of the last 20 years."
-- Daily News (New York)
"Nobody writes about the bad old days down South like James Lee
Burke."
-- The New York Times
"No other living writer has been more influential on the
contemporary crime novel than James Lee Burke.... This one is his
best."
-- Michael Connelly, author of Void Moon
Don't miss James Lee Burke's sensational bestsellers:
Heartwood
"A heartfelt, passionate book ... powerfully bittersweet."
-- The Seattle Times
Sunset Limited
"Splendidly atmospheric ... with dialogue so sharp you can shave
with it."
-- People
Available from Dell
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