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Детективу из полиции Нового Орлеана Дейву Робишо хорошо знакомы и опасные бары Французского квартала, и предательские болота Луизианы, по которым проходят тайные тропы наркоторговцев. Когда Робишо находит в заливе тело проститутки, он, сам того не подозревая, попадает в смертельную ловушку. Он становится мишенью для мафии и коррумпированных полицейских. Охота объявлена, и ветеран вьетнамской войны...
Бывший полицейский, а ныне владелец небольшой лодочной станции Дейв Робишо становится свидетелем авиакатастрофы. Из затонувшего самолета, который перевозил нелегальных эмигрантов, ему удается спасти пятилетнюю девочку. Однако, когда тело одного из четырех погибших пассажиров таинственным образом исчезает, Робишо начинает расследование сам. Он вновь сталкивается с преступным миром, живущим по волчь...
Дэйв Робишо, детектив полиции Нового Орлеана, был ранен в недавней перестрелке. В больнице его навещает местная певица, юная креолка, которая рассказывает Дэйву, что ей угрожают некие опасные люди. А может быть, этот визит просто привиделся детективу под действием болеутоляющих лекарств? Ведь всем в городе известно, что девушка давно пропала… А вскоре на берегу находят труп ее сестры, вмороженный ...
Dave Robicheaux's beloved New Orleans is awash with corpses after Hurricane Katrina unleashes its f awesome power. In a city patrolled only by looters, all law and order gone, the survivors wait in trees or on rooftops for help that never comes. In a landscape transformed into a violent wasteland, Robicheaux must investigate the shooting of two looters and find out why some very dangerous ...
In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable life—connecting a fateful encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to heroic acts at the Battle of the Bulge and finally to the high-stakes gambles and cutthroat players who ushered in the dawn of the American oil industry. In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Hollan...
Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux: His wife had been murdered ... Now they're after his little girl... From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands,he's running front the bottle, a homicide rap, aprofessional killer ... and the demons of his past.
Hackberry Holland is a man haunted by a chequered and traumatic past. A former POW from the Korean War, he has left everything behind to become sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas. But Hack soon finds himself dealing with more than just his own demons when nine dead prostitutes are dug up behind a run-down church. The search for justice - and revenge - pits Hack against ...
Dave Robicheaux left his drinking days behind him many years ago, but he still feels guilt over a tragic event he wasn't sober enough to prevent. Dallas Klein, a bar buddy of Dave's when he was posted to Miami PD, was killed in an armed robbery he'd been forced to engineer. Two decades later, several incidents in Dave's life in Iberia Parish link to those involved. First he mee...
Burke's sixth novel pits New Orleans homicide detective Dave Robichaux against the mob, the contras, the Feds and just about all the other cops. The trouble starts when Robichaux insists on investigating the murder of a young prostitute and
From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke—an atmospheric, coming-of-age story set in 1952 Texas, as the Korea War rages. On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality. But beneath the glitz and superficial normalcy, a class war has begun, and it is nothing like the conventional portraya...
Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland has many secrets in his dark past. Among them is Vernon Smothers' son Lucas, a teenaged boy about whom only Vernon and Billy Bob know the truth. Lucas is really Billy Bob's illegitimate son, and when Lucas is arrested for murder, Billy Bob knows that he has no choice but to confront the past and serve as the boy's criminal attorney. Duri...