After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana\'s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin.
A Private Cathedral , James Lee Burke\'s fortieth book, is his most powerful tale, one that will captivate readers--mixing crime, romance, mythology, horror, and science fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming, all-conquering power of love..
In order to defeat him and rescue Johnny and Isolde, Robicheaux will have to overcome the demons that have tormented him throughout his adult life--alcoholism, specters from combat in Vietnam, and painful memories of women to whom he opened his heart only to see killed.
He has the ability to induce horrifying hallucinations and travels on a menacing ghost ship that materializes without warning.
This hitman is unlike any the Bobbsey Twins from Homicide have ever faced.
In retribution, he hires a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcel.
As he seeks to uncover why, Detective Dave Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde\'s mother and the mistress of her father, a venomous New Orleans mafioso whose jealousy has no bounds.
Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny\'s uncle.
The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy.
After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana\'s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin
