Dave Robicheaux #13
Pocket Star
September 2004
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Featuring: Dave Robicheaux
496 pages ISBN: 0743466632 EAN: 9780743466639 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home.
New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy,
will always haunt him. So to return there -- as he does in
Last Car to Elysian Fields -- means visiting old
ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new,
yet familiar, dangers.
When Robicheaux, now a police
officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of
New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie
Dolan, a Catholic priest always at the center of
controversy, has been the victim of a particularly brutal
assault, he knows he has to return to New Orleans to
investigate, if only unofficially. What he doesn't realize
is that in doing so he is inviting into his life -- and
into the lives of those around him -- an ancestral evil
that could destroy them all.
The investigation begins
innocently enough. Assisted by good friend and P.I. Clete
Purcel, Robicheaux confronts the man they believe to be
responsible for Dolan's beating, a drug dealer and porno
star named Gunner Ardoin. The confrontation, however,
turns into a standoff as Clete ends up in jail and
Robicheaux receives an ominous warning to keep out of New
Orleans' affairs.
Meanwhile, back in New Iberia, more
trouble is brewing: Three local teenage girls are killed
in a drunk-driving accident, the driver being the
seventeen-year-old daughter of a prominent physician.
Robicheaux traces the source of the liquor to one of New
Iberia's "daiquiri windows," places that sell mixed drinks
from drive-by windows. When the owner of the drive-through
operation is brutally murdered, Robicheaux immediately
suspects the grief-crazed father of the dead teen driver.
But his assumption is challenged when the murder weapon
turns up belonging to someone else.
The trouble
continues when Father Jimmie asks Robicheaux to help
investigate the presence of a toxic landfill near St.
James Parish in New Orleans, which in turn leads to a
search for the truth behind the disappearance many years
before of a legendary blues musician and composer. Tying
together all these seemingly disparate threads of crime is
a maniacal killer named Max Coll, a brutal, brilliant, and
deeply haunted hit man sent to New Orleans to finish the
job on Father Dolan. Once Coll shows up, it becomes clear
that Dave Robicheaux will be forced to ignore the warning
to stay out of New Orleans, and he soon finds himself
drawn deeper into a viper's nest of sordid secrets and
escalating violence that sets him up for a confrontation
that echoes down the lonely corridors of his own
unresolved past.
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