Heaven's Prisoners

James Lee Burke

Jul 2010 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

James Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life.

Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana’s bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life—and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he’s known since childhood; Rocque’s hungry Cajun wife; and a Federal agent with more guts than sense. In a backwater world where a swagger and a gun go further than the law, Robicheaux and those he loves are caught on a tide of violence far bigger than them all...

Ratings and reviews

Would of been a 5, introduced to burkes A Morning For Flamingos, and fell enlove with the Robicheaux series. one of my top detective heroines. wile i was younger i did not realize that Dave is a live and let live kind of guy, when Mr. Burke the author creating the stories might be a bit prejudice. the first 4 novels specifically his characterization and word choice for any and all race other than white. like the books were written in the 60s?? last i looked it was produced in 89 taking place in 1988 New Orleans. The Negro bartender, or the big Spic pimp, why not just say the bartender or the pimp, why do they have to be of some racial profile. And then he describes a white man hes just a man, fuzzy descriptions with little to no character. he also makes any kind of person other than Dave a real dummy. the black citizens talk like cavemen short of dragging thier knuckles on the ground wile they walk.

Dave & his wife Annie witness a plane crash near their home. He dives into the river crash site & rescues a young girl from the wreckage. When the news breaks , the passenger list is one shy of Daves's experience which proves to be a problem with some locals & Feds as well. It brings great loss to Dave as his wife Annie is shot gunned to death as she sleeps. As usual he presses on. Also as usual the New Iberia landscape comes to life. Oct 19 2010

Descriptive writing makes you feel the heat and smell the many trees, plants, grass of lower Louisiana. A sad story line in so many ways.

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.