- Paperback: 314 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (6 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099415631
- ISBN-13: 978-0099415633
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 396,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Introducing the New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux, this novel begins with the murder of a prostitute, which no one wants him to investigate. Persistence results in his involvement with a drug dealing Mafia, and he uncovers a web of corruption that some would kill to protect.
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James Lee Burke is the author of twenty-two previous novels, including twelve featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux. He lives with his wife, Pearl, in Missoula, Montana and New Iberia, Louisiana.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Dave Robicheaux first appears as one of the 'Bobbsey Twins from Homicide' with his difficult and unpredictable partner Clete Purcell.
As usual the prose is beautiful and captures the essence of New Orleans and the desperate characters within it.
This introduction to Dave documents his decline and fall from the New Orleans Police Department as well as the wagon. Bleak and in some respects more violent than later novels. Dave is very much alone in this tale, emotionally isolated in his boat house on Lake Ponchartrain and socially excluded from his colleagues at the police station following his suspension from duty. His relationship with his partner Clete, his only close friend is also strained to the limits as they both undergo life changing events in their own lives. Its not the best of the Robicheaux stories but will put a lot of the later plots into perspective and adds vital components of Dave's early life and character.
A must for all Dave Robicheaux and James Lee Burke fans.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Read this when it was first published by Vintage (in the late eighties or early nineties !!!) in the UK. It's a great book, hard hitting & with an interesting main character in Dave Robicheaux. Burke writes really well - great dialogue & vivid descriptions, especially of landscape & weather. And the plot is good as well !!
Took me over 10 years to read the second book in the series (if memory serves I think it was because James Ellroy had dismissed Burkes poetic writing style & this had put me off)but Heavens Prisoners is just as good & am now on the fifth in the series. Looking forward to the rest, as well. Recommended.
Took me over 10 years to read the second book in the series (if memory serves I think it was because James Ellroy had dismissed Burkes poetic writing style & this had put me off)but Heavens Prisoners is just as good & am now on the fifth in the series. Looking forward to the rest, as well. Recommended.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Having only just discovered crime novels, as a bit of 'light relief' from heavier fair, I have to say this was superb...simply great writing. Wonderfully atmospheric, full of local colour and great idiomatic language, balls out energy and narrative commitment. I definitely rate it as unputdownable and even better than P Cornwell.
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A very enjoyable intorduction to Dave Robicheaux
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Great start to a great series
Read this when it was first published by Vintage (in the late eighties or early nineties !!!) in the UK. Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2009
Good enough start to a series - I guess
That's what I had to do at times with this book - guess! I couldn't figure out some of the prose between the characters. Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2009 by Sterile
Good read!
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