Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

James Lee Burke

Jul 2006 · Dave Robicheaux Book 15 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Dave Robicheaux is back in a dangerous mystery that involves stolen money, gritty casinos, and a beautiful girl with connections to his past.

When a nice young woman named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana, passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down on his new life of contentment. Twenty-five years ago, lost in a drunken haze in Florida, Robicheaux was too far gone to save his friend and fellow ’Nam vet Dallas Klein, murdered in cold blood for gambling debts. Now, the arrival of Dallas’s daughter opens a door locked long ago, and extracting her motives points Robicheaux to the suicide of a local “good girl” pulled into a vortex of power, sex, and death. It’s Robicheaux’s most personally painful case—a roller coaster of passion, surprise, and regret—and it may be his deadliest.

Ratings and reviews

Another fantastic yet so human in so many ways novel that we as readers find resemblances to many we know or have knowledge of via news, TV and social media. One could say in every day life in general and even biblically. History repeats and repeats leaving us with much knowledge, lessons of life and definitely entertainment.

Another great Dave Robicheaux novel, not my favorite, but still a good plot with believable characters.

James Lee Burke is the best author on the planet. I listens the the audio version of the books and Will Patton is the best narrator for these books.

About the author

James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.