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Last Car to Elysian Fields - Dave Robicheaux, Bk 13 - Audio CD - Abridged
Author: James Lee Burke, Will Patton (Narrator)

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 bas... more »ed 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.

Read by Will Patton

Abridged: 6 CDs, 7 hours

Audio Books swap for two (2) credits.

ISBN-13: 9780743561068
ISBN-10: 0743561066
Publication Date: 3/6/2007
Edition: Abridged
Rating:

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.

4.1 stars, based on 6 ratings

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Book Type: Audio CD
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

Genres:

Literature & Fiction >> General
Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Historical
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Mystery >> General
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Police Procedurals
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Thrillers & Suspense >> General
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Authors, A-Z >> ( B ) >> Burke, James Lee
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> General

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