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Heaven's Prisoners

by James Lee Burke

Series: Dave Robicheaux (2), Dave Robicheaux

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This is a very good story--complex morality tale. Good stuff on dealing with alcohol addiction, and on the structure of violence. (

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Darrol | Jul 3, 2009 |

Burke's second Robicheaux novel. i am reading them from the beginning of the series after reading Crusader's Cross. He is a bit more self-destructive on one hand then Travis McGee but on the other hand he has his feet more firmly planted on the ground. I also have flash backs to my time in south Louisiana when I read these novels. A good well written book. (

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Series (with order)

Dave Robicheaux (2)

Dave Robicheaux

Canonical Title

Heaven's Prisoners

Original publication date

1988

1990 (Danish tranlsation)

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New Iberia, Louisiana, USA

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I was just off Southwest Pass, between Pecan and Marsh islands, with the green, whitecapping water of the Gulf Stream to the south and the long, flat expanse of the Louisiana coastline behind me-which is really not a coastline at all but instead a huge wetlands area of sawgrass, dead cypress strung with wisps of moss, and a maze of canals and bayous that are choked with Japanese water lilies whose purple flowers audibly pop in the morning and whose root systems can wind around your propeller shaft like cable wire.

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I was not simply a drunk; I was drawn to a violent and aberrant world the way a vampire bat seeks a black recess within the earth.

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Danish title (1990): Delta blues eller vorherres uskyldige gidsler; 1996 Danish edition has title: Besat af fortiden; Finnish title: Taivaan vangit; German title: Mississippi Delta – Blut in den Bayous

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743449193, Paperback)

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....

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