Dave Robicheaux #16
Simon & Schuster
July 2007
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Featuring: Dave Robicheaux
352 pages ISBN: 1416548483 EAN: 9781416548485 Hardcover Add to Wish List
In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with
greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels
the face off southern Louisiana.
This is the
gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave
Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As
James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown,
begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district
and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and
predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has
been destroyed, New Orleans reduced to the level of a
medieval society. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary
for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. Bodies
float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of
flooded trees. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare,
Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-
addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous
than the criminals looting the city.
In a singular
style that defies genre, James Lee Burke has created a
hauntingly bleak picture of life in New Orleans after
Katrina. Filled with complex characters and depictions of
people at both their best and worst, The Tin Roof
Blowdown is not only an action-packed crime thriller,
but a poignant story of courage and sacrifice that critics
are already calling Burke's best work.
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