The Neon Rain: A Dave Robicheaux NovelFrom New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes his definitive, must-read first title in his famous Dectective David Robicheaux series. New Orleans Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with police brass, with killers and hustlers, and the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux haunts the intense and heady French Quarter—the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he beomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the seedy world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down the criminal underworld and come to terms with his own bruised heart and demons to survive. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 26 |
Section 3 | 50 |
Section 4 | 73 |
Section 5 | 88 |
Section 6 | 106 |
Section 7 | 129 |
Section 8 | 147 |
Section 9 | 174 |
Section 10 | 190 |
Section 11 | 225 |
Section 12 | 246 |
Section 13 | 273 |
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