Robicheaux har trukket seg tilbake fra politiet for å ta vare på sin lille datter etter at han mistet konen sin på brutalt vis. Han kjemper for å holde seg unna flaska, takle de nattlige marerittene og tjene penger på fiskeforretningen han driver. I et tilfeldig møte med en kunde får Robicheaux nye opplysninger om kona. Han følger sporet til Montana og territoriet til Blackfoot-indianerne, som mister landområder til et ekspanderende oljeselskap. To av stammens aktivister forsvinner og Robicheaux kastes tilbake i en voldsherjet verden blant mafiabøller og FBI-agenter. Boken vant Edgar Allen Poe-prisen da den kom ut i USA.
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A Dave Robicheaux Novel James Lee Burke. “Vivid and distinctive characters and a great deal of hard action. . . . Burke's dialogue sounds true as a tape-recording; his writing about action is strong and economical.
... it into the flames. the denim burst alight and sank with its contents into the fire. “Welcome to Louisiana, mr. Perkins. i love your place,” i said. THAT AFTERNOON AN elderly cane farmer ten miles outside of The Glass Rainbow 83.
JAMES LEE BURKE, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards, is the creator of some of the most lauded characters in American crime fiction: detective Dave Robicheaux, Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, and Montana lawman Billy Bob Holland.
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