James Lee Burke\'s most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this New York Times bestselling mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana: an enthralling yet grim novel that...will captivate, start to finish ( Publishers Weekly ).
It has been almost five years since James Lee Burke\'s last Dave Robicheaux novel, and it was absolutely worth the wait (Associated Press)..
As Robicheaux works to clear his name and make sense of the murder, a harrowing study of America emerges: this nation\'s abiding conflict between a sense of past grandeur and a legacy of shame, its easy seduction by demagogues and wealth, and its predilection for violence and revenge.
Complicating matters is the sudden death of the New Iberian local responsible for Molly\'s death; namely that Robicheaux\'s colleague thinks Robicheaux had something to do with it.
There\'s something off about the relationship among these three men, and after a vicious assault, it\'s up to Robicheaux to uncover the truth in the barn-burner of a climax ( Booklist , starred review).
Tony thinks Jimmy can be a US Senator someday, and has the resources and clout to make it happen.
Jimmy\'s fond of Levon\'s work, and even fonder of his beautiful, enigmatic wife, Rowena.
Then there\'s Jimmy Nightengale, the young poster boy of New Orleans wealth and glamour.
Tony has a Civil War sword he\'d like to give to Levon Broussard, a popular local author whose books have been adapted into major Hollywood films.
It\'s in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo.
Robicheaux\'s only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana.
Images of ghosts pepper his reality.
From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next.
Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man.
James Lee Burke\'s most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this New York Times bestselling mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana: an enthralling yet grim novel that...will captivate, start to finish ( Publishers Weekly )
