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Crusader's Cross

by James Lee Burke

ISBN: 0743277198
ISBN-13: 9780743277198
Format: Hardcover

Summary

In the 13th installment of the Dave Robicheaux series of literary mysteries, the personal and professional once again collide to devastating effect for the Louisiana detective. When Dave and his half-brother Jimmie were teenagers in 1958, Jimmie fell in love with prostitute Ida Durbin after she rescued the two young men from a Galveston Island sandbar encircled by sharks. Jimmie planned to rescue Ida from "the game" and start a new life with her in Mexico, but Ida vanished instead. A deathbed confession from an old acquaintance puts the present-day Dave on the twisty and extremely dangerous trail of Ida's eventual fate, as he also pursues a serial killer who may be connected to the case.

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"Burke's best book in years." (starred review)

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"Burke masterfully combines landscape and memory in a violent, complex story peopled by sharply defined characters who inhabit a lush, sensual, almost mythological world." (starred review)

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"Speaking in their weird and wonderful tongues, [Burke's]...characters add their voices to a regional story that takes its collective identity from the sum of their lives."    -- Marilyn Stasio

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"[A] blazing book...[T]he plotting and the scene-setting are, as always, marvelously evocative and sustained."    -- Philip Oakes

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"Surprise lurking in the crevices of a recurring patter: that's nature at its most beautiful, and Burke at his most eloquent." (starred review)    -- Bill Ott

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 2005
Size: 6.75 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.1 pounds
Pages: 325

Publisher's Notes

After hearing an old schoolmate's deathbed confession, Dave Robicheaux begins a search for a prostitute he met decades earlier who had dangerous ties to the mob, an endeavor that proves dangerous in the wake of a series of murders and the sudden appearance of a troubled young woman. By the author of In the Moon of Red Ponies.

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