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JAMES LEE BURKE
PURPLE CANE ROAD
From Edgar Award-winner James
Lee Burke comes this emotional powerhouse of a novel…in which everyman hero
Dave Robicheaux confronts the secrets of his long-forgotten past in a shattering
tale of revenge, murder, and a mother’s haunting legacy. . .
Robicheaux
first hears it from a pimp eager to trade information for his life: Mae
Guillory was murdered outside a New Orleans nightclub by two cops. Dave
Robicheaux was just a boy when his mother ran out on him and his whiskey-driven
father. Now Robicheaux is a man, still haunted by her desertion and her death.
More than thirty-five years after Mae Guillory died, her son will go to any
length to bring her killers to justice. And as he moves closer to what happened
that long-ago night, the Louisiana cop crosses lines of color and class to find
the place where secrets of his past lie buried. . .and where all roads lead to
revenge-but only one road leads to the truth. . .
“NOBODY WRITES ABOUT THE
BAD OLD DAYS DOWN SOUTH LIKE JAMES LEE BURKE.”-The New York Times
“NO OTHER LIVING WRITER
HAS BEEN MORE INFLUENTIAL ON THE
CONTEMPORARY CRIME NOVEL THAN
JAMES LEE BURKE…. THIS ONE IS HIS BEST.”-Michael Connelly, author of
Void Moon
“A THOROUGHLY ABSORBING
MYSTERY PACKED WITH THE COLORFUL
CHARACTERS AND MORAL DILEMMAS THAT HAVE TURNED DAVE
ROBICHEAUX INTO ONE OF THE MORE VIVID LITERARY CREATIONS OF THE LAST 20
YEARS.”-
Daily News (New York)
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