Heaven's Prisoners (Dave Robicheaux) - Softcover

Burke, James Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743449193 ISBN 13: 9780743449199

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2002

Synopsis

James Lee Burke's second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life.

Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana's bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life--and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he's known since childhood; Rocque's hungry Cajun wife; and a Federal agent with more guts than sense. In a backwater world where a swagger and a gun go further than the law, Robicheaux and those he loves are caught on a tide of violence far bigger than them all...

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Review:

Elmore Leonard Burke tells a story in a style all his own: language that's alive, electric; he's a master at setting mood, laying in atmosphere, all with quirky, raunchy dialogue that's a delight.

Kansas City Star Riveting...Burke is a master.

New York Newsday A fine, compelling novel.

The Philadelphia Inquirer Fine, intelligent prose, gritty yet poetic.

Book Description:

The second Dave Robicheaux novel from the award-winning crime writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743449193
• ISBN 13: 9780743449199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320