Crusader's cross a Dave Robicheaux novel
"A conversation between Robicheaux and a dying childhood friend about Ida Durbin, a young prostitute that Robicheaux's half-brother, Jimmie, loved and lost in the late 1950s, sets the ex-homicide detective on a path that eventually leads to several gruesome killings and his near downfall. Unemployed...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
c2005.
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| Series: | Burke, James Lee, 1936- Dave Robicheaux novel ;
14. |
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| Summary: | "A conversation between Robicheaux and a dying childhood friend about Ida Durbin, a young prostitute that Robicheaux's half-brother, Jimmie, loved and lost in the late 1950s, sets the ex-homicide detective on a path that eventually leads to several gruesome killings and his near downfall. Unemployed, his wife dead, his daughter in college, Robicheaux rejoins the New Iberia, La., sheriff's department at the urging of Sheriff Helen Soileau, who needs an extra hand as the murders mount ... Robicheaux and his impulsive former police partner, PI Clete Purcell, seek retribution for injustices caused by a wide range of corrupt villains."--Publishers Weekly. |
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| Physical Description: | 325 p. |
| ISBN: | 0743277198 |
| Author Notes: | (Publisher Provided) |
