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Chargement... Burning Angel (édition 1998)par James Lee Burke
Information sur l'oeuvreLe brasier de l'ange par James Lee Burke
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. New Iberia , Louisiana Sheriff's detective Dave Robicheaux is given a hand written diary that could incriminate a number of figures in atrocities committed in Central America in the 1980s. The story is set about 10 years after these events. The New Orleans mafia and some CIA operatives are all after Dave and Sonny who gave him the diary. Meanwhile a family who has lived on a plantation since they were slaves are being evicted from homes they thought were theirs even though there was no deed. Will Dave sort all this out without getting fired or killed? It might be just me, but this one seemed to have a lot of moving parts, and I'm not sure Burke was able to successfully keep them all in the air. One element I do need to point out that I'm getting a touch tired with is...is Robicheaux a cop, or is he not a cop? He's been in and out of the job an awful lot over the course of the eight books I've read so far. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:A BRUTAL LEGACY OF CRUELTY AND HATE IS AWAKENED IN THE BAYOU When Sonny Boy Marsallus returns to New Iberia after fleeing for Central America to avoid the wrath of the powerful Giacana family, his old troubles soon follow. Meanwhile Dave Robicheaux becomes entangled in the affairs of the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers whose matriarch helped raise Dave as a child. They are in danger of losing the land they've lived on for more than a century. As Dave tries to discover who wants the land so badly, he finds himself in increasing peril from a lethal, rag tag alliance of local mobsters and a hired assassin with a shady past. And when a seemingly innocent woman is brutally murdered, all roads intersect, and Sonny Boy is in the middle. With the usual James Lee Burke combination of brilliant action and unforgettable characters, Burning Angel is the author at his best â?? showing that old hatreds and new ones are not that far apa Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Marsallus's secrets seem tied to those of the Fontenots. But can Detective Dave Robicheaux make sense of it all before there is more bloodshed? In James Lee Burke's intense and powerful new bestseller, Robicheux digs deep into the bad blood and dirty secrets of Louisiana's past--while having to confront a rag-tag alliance of local mobsters and hired assassin. ( )