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'James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed.' Michael Connelly
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- PublisherOrion
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1409163490
- ISBN 13 9781409163497
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
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