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Loading... Dixie City Jam (original 1994; edition 1994)by James Lee Burke
Work InformationDixie City Jam by James Lee Burke (1994)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) ForAttentionPress | Oct 5, 2022 |  ( ) MMc009 | Jan 30, 2022 | ) TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 | Wait! Let's make him a Nazi sociopath. Mmm, not enough. Let's make him a gay Nazi sociopath. No, wait--how about a gay Nazi sociopath who's a sadist and an expert torturer! But what would such a character want from Dave? Hmm, Dave dives--let's say there's a sunken Nazi U-boat drifting around the Gulf coast for the last fifty years, and only Dave knows where it is. And the gay sadist Nazi sociopath wants it because--well, he's a Nazi! And, of course, the U-boat is full of Nazi treasure, which U-boats are known to carry. The subtleties that make Burke's work interesting are mostly abandoned. Once again, there's an Italian mob family also involved. In every book, New Orleans has a new mob family that has always run things. Robicheaux always knows the leaders personally, and not infrequently, beats them up with something like impunity, which is usually explained as the result of pragmatism on the part of the criminals, although the same criminals are described as able to hold grudges for years and settle them in frightening and disgusting ways, regardless of surface appearance. Preposterousness, of course, is not a dealbreaker when it comes to thrillers like this. But it should be more artfully disguised. Burke has always been great at making things emotionally realistic, however over-the-top the situation. Yet in one scene, Robicheaux returns home after a particularly brutal session with the villain, and the effect on his wife and 12-year-old daughter of seeing him badly injured is never acknowledged. That's the kind of easy out I wouldn't have thought Burke would allow himself. I think Burke erred, a few books back, in giving his hero a wife, a small daughter, and a well-known home address, given the danger he's frequently in, and the meanness of the characters he contends with. Their characterization suffers, as it does here, as they repeatedly become targets to be protected. Has Burke put his real gifts aside and fallen into mere formula? (  ) john.cooper | Jul 31, 2019 |  ) CrystalToller | Mar 5, 2019 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML:A FORGOTTEN NAZI SUB BRINGS OLD HATREDS TO THE SURFACE They're out there, under the salt â?? the bodies of German seamen who used to lie in wait at the mouth of the Mississippi for unescorted American tankers sailing from the oil refineries of Baton Rouge out into the Gulf of Mexico. As a child, Dave Robicheaux had been haunted by the sailors' images; then, as a young college student, he'd discovered one of their sunken subs while scuba diving. Years later, in a New Orleans populated by desperate hustlers and millennium - watchers of all stripes, Robicheaux, a detective with the New Iberia sheriff's office, finds himself and his family at serious risk, stalked for his knowledge of a watery burial ground by a mysterious man named Will Buchalter â?? a man who believes that the Holocaust was one big hoax. A masterpiece of suspense, Dixie City Jam takes listeners deep into the human heart of dar No library descriptions found. |
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