I really enjoy books by James Lee Burke, including this one. I wanted to read it because it's the first one with the character Dave Robicheaux. Good reading and with all of the plot twists, keeps you on your toes.

After reading so many of the later Dace Robicheaux books I finally went backt ot he beginning. Good to have the full background on Dave! Good, quick read. Definitely recommend.

#1 in Dave Robcheaux series.

this is my first book about Dave Robcheaux but I liked the characters and story and will continue to read the series.

Robicheaux is good--the book is gritty, black, funny, moves along nicely, and takes the reader with it all the way. The female is not your typical detective novel female. She has more than two dimensions, and plays a minor but essential role. I have the impression that the author has actually met a woman or two, surely unusual for authors in this genre.

This is the first Dave Robicheaux novel.

Very well written hardboiled detective story. As you read you feel you are there with the characters. There is a lot of violence as you would expect with this type of story and at first I didn't think I wanted to read it. However, the writing lured me in and I am hooked.

An intriguing start to the Robicheaux series. It does seem very dated. Very 80s. Very over the top greed. Quite satisfying.

From the back cover:

"Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Rovicheaux's haunted soul mirros the intesnity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter - the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitue whose body is found in a bayou. Thurst into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive."

Great book. I am looking forward to reading the next one in the series.

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