The Tin Roof Blowdown
of James Lee Burke
Series: Dave Robicheaux #16
Description
This is James Lee Burke's latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux. It is also much more than that. The story begins with the shooting of two would-be looters in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and then follows a motley group of characters - from street thugs to a big-time mob boss, from a junkie priest to a sadistic psychopath - as their stories converge on a cache of stolen diamonds, while the storm turns the Big Easy into a lawless wasteland of apocalyptic proportions. The nightmarish landscape created by Katrina seems the perfect setting for Burke's almost Biblical visions of good and evil - it is as if he had to wait for this disaster to find the occasion to match his emotionally supercharged prose. You can feel the undercurrents of rage and pain beneath the narrative, making this not only his most personal and deeply felt book for some time, but quite possibly his best novel to date. This is not just a superb crime novel, it is potentially THE fictional chronicle of a disaster whose human dimensions America is still struggling to process.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 373 pages
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date September 17th 2007
- First Publication 07/17/07
- Language English
- ISBN 9781416548485
- Edition Not informed
- Category Mystery & Thriller
- Scenario ['New Orleans, Louisiana (United States)']
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