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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780380713608
ISBN number: 0380713608
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: August 01, 1991
Publishing house: Avon
Release Date: August 01, 1991
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Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force.
His partner is dead -- slain during a condemned prisoner's bloodyflight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded...and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past.
Now he's trailing a killer into the sordid head of die Big Easy-caught up in the lethal undercurrents of a mob double-cross...confronting his most dangerous enemy: himself
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Just finished reading this book. I could not put it down. Another great one by the author.
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This was my very first reading of James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux series and it is easily apparent I have been missing some fine writing. I'm not a big fan of the million big-d&^% cop novels out there. I enjoy a select few, usually those spiced with some humor. If they are dark, and depressing, and full of moralistic BS, I pass. This book, A morning For Flamingos is none of those, nor does it have the overt humour I enjoy. What it has is some fine characterization of Dave Robicheaux as a fragile human being, a caring human being, and the kind of cop one hopes really exists.
I listened to the audio version, and at very first I did not care for the narrator, but the story kept me and after the very first disc I found I liked that narrator more and more. And, the dang book kept getting better. Not ramped up, adrenaline-soaked action, but understated storytelling that exceeds all my requirements for an enjoying story. I recommend this without reservation, and I'm picking up a few more of Burke's works. But not here, used; at a store, where maybe by the time the leeches get their part, he'll get a quarter.
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JLB is just a better writer than most authors of this genre. Dave Robicheaux is a loser you can love and relate to at some level. I think the inner workings of the mind of a less than perfect man trying to do the right thing is what makes this book so appealing. Fabulous reading if you want to understand the alcoholic's pattern of thinking.
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I have a complete library of James Lee Burke novels. I love them and I love hiw way of putting me right into the places his stories are about. Not too many writers do this well but I know New Iberia like I know my own town and have never even been there.
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On the recommendation of a column in my local newspaper, I bought several in these in the series, a little too much in the language department for my tastes. Nevertheless, you certainly can picture it in your minds eye. So, although I purchased several, I only read about the very first third in one. I did not throw them away, I passed them along. There are others authors out there for me.
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