Name: Heaven's Prisoners

Author: James Lee Burke
Year: 1988
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Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Detective

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9780743449199
0743449193
James Lee Burke'€™s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life. 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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"Last Car to Elysian Fields"
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"Cadillac Jukebox"
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"A Stained White Radiance"
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"Black Cherry Blues"
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