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In the 13th installment of the Dave Robicheaux series of literary mysteries, the personal and professional once again collide to devastating effect for the Louisiana detective. When Dave and his half-brother Jimmie were teenagers in 1958, Jimmie fell in love with prostitute Ida Durbin after she rescued the two young men from a Galveston Island sandbar encircled by sharks. Jimmie planned to rescue Ida from "the game" and start a new life with her in Mexico, but Ida vanished instead. A deathbed confession from an old acquaintance puts the present-day Dave on the twisty and extremely dangerous trail of Ida's eventual fate, as he also pursues a serial killer who may be connected to the case.
| Size | | Length: | 325 pages | | Height: | 10.0 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Burke's best book in years." (starred review)
Kirkus (04/01/2005)
"Burke masterfully combines landscape and memory in a violent, complex story peopled by sharply defined characters who inhabit a lush, sensual, almost mythological world." (starred review)
Publishers Weekly (06/06/2005)
"Speaking in their weird and wonderful tongues, [Burke's]...characters add their voices to a regional story that takes its collective identity from the sum of their lives."
New York Times Book Review - Marilyn Stasio (07/10/2005)
"[A] blazing book...[T]he plotting and the scene-setting are, as always, marvelously evocative and sustained."
Literary Review - Philip Oakes (08/01/2005)
"Surprise lurking in the crevices of a recurring patter: that's nature at its most beautiful, and Burke at his most eloquent." (starred review)
Booklist - Bill Ott (05/01/2005)
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