Dave Robicheaux #15
Pocket Star
September 2007
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Featuring: Dave Robicheaux
448 pages ISBN: 1416513450 EAN: 9781416513452 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and
dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes
into his hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to
be the daughter of Robicheaux's onetime best friend -- a
friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy
that forever changed Robicheaux's life.
In Pegasus Descending, James Lee Burke again explores
psyches as much as evidence, and tries to make sense of
human behavior as well as of his characters' crimes. Richly
atmospheric, frightening in its sudden violence, and replete
with the sort of puzzles only the best crime fiction
creates, Burke's latest novel is an unforgettable roller
coaster of passion, surprise, and regret.
The twists begin when Trish Klein -- the only offspring of
Robicheaux's Vietnam-era buddy -- starts passing marked
hundred-dollar bills in local casinos. Is she a good kid
gone bad? A victim's child seeking revenge? A promiscuous
beauty seducing everyone good within her grasp? And how does
her behavior relate to the apparent suicide of another
"good" girl, an ace student named Yvonne Darbonne, who
apparently participated in a college frat orgy before her
death?
Can Robicheaux make his peace with the demons that have
haunted him since his friend's murder so many years ago? Can
he figure out how a local mobster fits into all the schemes
and deaths? Can Robicheaux's life be whole again when it has
been shattered by so much tragedy?
Once again, Burke proves why he is the virtual poet laureate
of southern Louisiana, and why his novels, especially those
featuring Dave Robicheaux, stand as brilliant literature and
entertainment for our time.
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