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Name: The Tin Roof Blowdown

Author: James Lee Burke
Year: 2007
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Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Detective

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ISBNs:
9781416548485
9781416548508
1416548483
1416548505

This is James Lee Burke's latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux. It is also much more than that. The story begins with the shooting of two would-be looters in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and then follows a motley group of characters - from street thugs to a big-time mob boss, from a junkie priest to a sadistic psychopath - as their stories converge on a cache of stolen diamonds, while the storm turns the Big Easy into a lawless wasteland of apocalyptic proportions. The nightmarish landscape created by Katrina seems the perfect setting for Burke's almost Biblical visions of good and evil - it is as if he had to wait for this disaster to find the occasion to match his emotionally supercharged prose. You can feel the undercurrents of rage and pain beneath the narrative, making this not only his most personal and deeply felt book for some time, but quite possibly his best novel to date. This is not just a superb crime novel, it is potentially THE fictional chronicle of a disaster whose human dimensions America is still struggling to process.

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"Crusader's Cross"
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"Last Car to Elysian Fields"
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"Jolie Blon's Bounce"
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"Purple Cane Road"
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"Cadillac Jukebox"
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"Burning Angel"
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"Dixie City Jam"
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"In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead"
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"Black Cherry Blues"
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