A Morning for Flamingos

Readers who mourn the late John D. MacDonald may have reason to take heart...The latest book featuring Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has elements common to the best of McGee: boats, brawls, drug dealers, murder and the singular language of the South. - Detroit Free Press

Zusatztext "The plotting is intricate and the action is robust. . .Burke creates rich! complicated characters and treats them with tremendous compassion. And he fashions passages of prose as haunting as any writer at work in America today." Informationen zum Autor James Lee Burke is the author of nineteen novels, including eleven starring the Detective Dave Robicheaux. Burke grew up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast, where he now lives with his wife, Pearl, and spends several months of the year in Montana. Klappentext Clutching the shards of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force. His partner is deadslain during a condemned prisoner's bloody flight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded . . . and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past. Now he's trailing a killer into the sordid heat of the Big Easy, caught up in the lethal undercurrents of a mob double-cross as he confronts his most dangerous enemyhimself . . . Zusammenfassung A Morning for Flamingos is a classic Dave Robicheaux Louisiana mystery by New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke. Desperately holding together the pieces of his shattered life! Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New Iberia police force. While transporting two death-row prisoners! Dave is wounded! his partner is killed. Now he's trailing a killer into the heart of the Big Easy's underworld. Embroiled in a world of drug dealers! prostitutes! and double-crosses! Robicheaux is forced to confront his most dangerous enemy: himself. Absorbing and masterfully executed! A Morning for Flamingos is one of Edgar Awardwinning author James Lee Burke's most enduring southern crime novels.

The plotting is intricate and the action is robust. . .Burke creates rich, complicated characters and treats them with tremendous compassion. And he fashions passages of prose as haunting as any writer at work in America today.

Autorentext
James Lee Burke is the author of nineteen novels, including eleven starring the Detective Dave Robicheaux. Burke grew up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast, where he now lives with his wife, Pearl, and spends several months of the year in Montana.

Klappentext

Clutching the shards of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force.

His partner is dead—slain during a condemned prisoner's bloody flight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded . . . and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past.

Now he's trailing a killer into the sordid heat of the Big Easy, caught up in the lethal undercurrents of a mob double-cross as he confronts his most dangerous enemy—himself . . .

Zusammenfassung

A Morning for Flamingos is a classic Dave Robicheaux Louisiana mystery by New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.
 
Desperately holding together the pieces of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New Iberia police force. While transporting two death-row prisoners, Dave is wounded, his partner is killed. Now he’s trailing a killer into the heart of the Big Easy’s underworld.

Embroiled in a world of drug dealers, prostitutes, and double-crosses, Robicheaux is forced to confront his most dangerous enemy: himself.
 
Absorbing and masterfully executed, A Morning for Flamingos is one of Edgar Award–winning author James Lee Burke’s most enduring southern crime novels.