Heaven's prisoners / James Lee Burke.
Series: Robicheaux. 2 | Burke, James Lee, Dave Robicheaux novel ; Publication details: London : Orion, 2012.Description: 342 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781409109525 (paperback)
- 9780753820322 (paperback)
- 0753820323 (paperback)
- Robicheaux, Dave, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Aircraft accidents
- Detective and mystery stories
- Drug traffic
- Manners and customs
- Missing persons
- Murder
- Private investigators
- Robicheaux, Dave (Fictitious character)
- Detective and mystery stories
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Murder -- Fiction
- Aircraft accidents -- Fiction
- Drug traffic -- Fiction
- Robicheaux, Dave (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Aircraft accidents -- Louisiana -- Fiction
- Drug traffic -- Louisiana -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Louisiana -- Fiction
- Murder -- Louisiana -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- Louisiana -- Fiction
- Louisiana
- Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- -- Social life and customs
- 813.54 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | BUR | Robicheaux Bk.2 | Available | 063931 |
First published in London by Mysterious Press, 1990.
Dave Robicheaux is a man driven by his constant battle with alcoholism; by memories of his past as a detective on the New Orleans police force; by his need for order; by his obsession with the seedy, aberrant side of New Orleans life. Trying to put his own life together again, Dave has married Annie and now runs a small fishing rental business in the Louisiana bayou. When he and Annie witness the crash of a small plane, in which four people, obviously illegal aliens die, and only a little girl survives, Robicheaux is drawn to the trail of a network of crimes that suggests a Central American dope-running ring operated with the connivance of federal agents. Violence ensues, and Robicheaux, no stranger to tragedy, must confront it again when Annie becomes a victim. Haunted by guilt, deeply depressed, in constant danger, Robicheaux trusts no one, including the cops, for he knows that they too, are capable of skirting the law.