Heaven's PrisonersJames 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... |
Contents
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Section 2 | 14 |
Section 3 | 15 |
Section 4 | 21 |
Section 5 | 34 |
Section 6 | 50 |
Section 7 | 70 |
Section 8 | 73 |
Section 16 | 164 |
Section 17 | 179 |
Section 18 | 182 |
Section 19 | 192 |
Section 20 | 199 |
Section 21 | 212 |
Section 22 | 226 |
Section 23 | 258 |
Section 9 | 77 |
Section 10 | 92 |
Section 11 | 94 |
Section 12 | 108 |
Section 13 | 123 |
Section 14 | 140 |
Section 15 | 147 |
Section 24 | 270 |
Section 25 | 279 |
Section 26 | 284 |
Section 27 | 292 |
Section 28 | 305 |
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