By James Lee Burke
ISBN-10: 0743204840
ISBN-13: 9780743204842
James Lee Burke, acclaimed by means of critics as "America's most sensible novelist," "the Graham Greene of the bayou," and "a poet of the secret novel," returns together with his well known personality, Dave Robicheaux, in a singular wealthy with surroundings, ripe with risk, and packed with the type of crackling discussion that has made Burke a constant long island occasions best-selling writer. whilst a stunning teenage lady is killed, the sufferer of a very savage rape, New Iberia, Louisiana, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses from the very commence of the research that the main most probably suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, isn't the genuine killer. notwithstanding a drug addict and common ne'er-do-well, Hulin simply does not healthy the profile for this sort of brutal crime. but if one other homicide happens -- this sufferer a drugged-out prostitute who occurs to be the daughter of 1 of the neighborhood mafia bigwigs -- all clues once more element to Tee Bobby Hulin, and the cries for arrest develop into too loud to disregard. The lifeless girl's father, despite the fact that, prefers to take concerns in his personal fingers and units out to discover -- and punish -- the killer himself. yet sooner than Robicheaux can remedy those crimes and produce the killer or killers to justice, he's compelled to conflict his personal internal demons, together with a painkiller dependancy, a behavior that starts off because the results of a brutal and humiliating beating he suffers by the hands of the mysterious and diabolical personality referred to as Legion. A fixture within the zone for years, Legion used to be the overseer on a neighborhood sugarcane plantation and now will get via doing atypical jobs. In temperament, in spite of the fact that, he is nonetheless the malicious and malevolent bully he consistently was once, a guy outlined through evil and doubtless possessed with supernatural talents of survival. further to the combo, and at the solid man facet of the stability sheet, is Clete Purcel, an established blood brother of Robicheaux's and a proven boozer and womanizer. Clete involves New Iberia for a trip and is readily drawn into the fight among a few of the forces of evil within the city, together with Jimmy Dean kinds, a black guy rationale on protecting his empire of corruption; Joe Zeroski, a trailer park mafioso with palatial aspirations -- and naturally, Legion Guidry, the satan incarnate, in whom Robicheaux unearths himself dealing with a problem and an enemy not like any he has ever recognized. and shortly, what started as a duel of wits has became a dance of loss of life. Gothic, dense, brutal, touching, and consistently compelling, Jolie Blon's leap is vintage storytelling from a author who has been dubbed "the Faulkner of crime fiction."
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Clete, will you—" I began. " he said. "Why do you always have to ask questions that offer a presumption as a truth? " "Right," he said, sticking a cigarette in the corner of his mouth, his face thoughtful. " That afternoon I was visited by the parents of Amanda Boudreau. They sat side by side in front of my desk, their faces impassive, their eyes never lingering on any particular object, as though they were sitting in a vacuum and addressing voices and concerns that were alien to all their prior experience.
When I walked down to the pond and saw you on the bench here, I was put in mind of Captain Dreyfus. It's a foolish comparison, I guess," I said. He reeled in his lure until it was snug against the tip of his rod, then idly flicked drops of water off it onto the pond's surface. "I like you, Dave. I really do. " he said. "By the way, I ran down a guy named Legion, one of your old overseers. He raped Ladice Hulin. Can you figure out how a guy like that became head of security at the casino? Something else, too.
He did not contend with either the world or mortality, did not grieve upon the wrongs of his fellowman, and possessed a Rotarian view of both charity and business and saw one as a natural enhancement of the other. But sometimes on a wintry day I would catch him gazing out the window, a liquid glimmer in his eyes, and I knew he was back in his youth, on a long, white road that wound between white hills that were rounded like women's breasts, the road lined with chained-up Marine Corps six-bys and marching men whose coats and boots and steel pots were sheathed with snow.