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The 11th Dave Robicheaux novel from bestseller James Lee Burke. schovat popis

Detektivní thriller jehož děj se odehrává v americké Montaně. Hlavní hrdina Billy Bob Holland, bývalý texaský ranger a nynější právník, odjíždí ke svému příteli na sever Spojených států do Montany. Jeho přítel doktor Voss, vietnamský veterán, nesmiřitelný odpůrce těžby zlata v panenské přírodě Montany, se dostává díky svým drsným metodám do konfliktu nejen s místním podsvětím, ale také s ochránci zákona. Poté co je jeho dcera brutálně znásilněna a on obviněn z vraždy, Billy Bob začíná pátrat, kdo za celou situací stojí - motorkářský gang, mexická drogová mafie, lidé z těžební společnosti? Nebo se jedná o pomstu právě propuštěného trestance Wayatta Dixona?

WHEN A NICE YOUNG WOMAN named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, Detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down on his new life of contentment. Twenty-five years ago, lost in a drunken haze in Florida, Robicheaux was too far gone to save his friend and fellow ’Nam vet Dallas Klein, murdered in cold blood for gambling debts. Now, the arrival of Dallas’s daughter opens a door locked long ago, and extracting her motives points Robicheaux to the suicide of a local "good girl" pulled into a vortex of power, sex, and death. It’s Robicheaux’s most personally painful case—a roller coaster of passion, surprise, and regret—and it may be his deadliest.

Billy Bob Holland žije v malém texaském městě, které se na televizních obrazovkách zobrazuje jako optimistické a idylické, avšak on sám tuto realitu nepoznává. Televize ignoruje zášť, malicherné spory a korupci mocných, což ho odrazuje od sledování. Jako právník se setkává s temnou stránkou života – s neštěstím, arogancí a zločinem, který se vyhýbá spravedlnosti, zatímco mocní se vykrucují z vlastních činů. Holland se snaží žít podle morálních zásad, ale jeho minulost ho pronásleduje. Když je Lucas Smothers obviněn ze znásilnění a vraždy, Holland se ujme jeho obhajoby. Snaží se přesvědčit sám sebe o Lucasově nevině, ale jeho pochybnosti jsou hluboké, neboť Lucasův příběh se podobá příběhu jeho předka, a Holland je navíc Lucasovým biologickým otcem. Tímto způsobem se Holland snaží bránit nejen Lucasovi před zákonem a veřejností, ale i sám sobě. James Lee Burke, známý autor kriminálních románů, tentokrát opustil svého tradičního hrdinu a prostředí Louisiany, avšak zůstal věrný svému stylu. Jeho díla jsou často považována za ostré analýzy americké společnosti, ačkoli se Burke potýká s nedoceněním v širším literárním kontextu.

DIXIE CITY JAM When a Nazi submarine is discovered lying in sixty feet of water off the Louisiana coast, some troubled ghosts are ready to be released. A local businessman is offering Detective Dave Robicheaux big money to bring the wreck to the surface, but he is not the only one after the submarine and its cargo. A new spirit of hatred is abroad, and its embodiment is stalking Robicheaux's wife...BURNING ANGEL When Sonny Marsallas entrusts a mysterious notebook to Dave Robicheaux, a series of violent events is set in train. What did Sonny's girlfriend know that resulted in her murder? What are Sonny's connections with the Mob that finally lead them to send a hitman after Dave? BURNING ANGEL outstrips its crime thriller label to produce a rich, sardonic and terrifying portrayal of contemporary America. PURPLE CANE ROAD Detective Dave Robicheaux embarks on a painful journey to a murky past, when he his told that his mother, Mae, was a hooker and ended her life drowned in a puddle by two cops working for the Mob. Dave learns to confront and accept his mistakes as he tries to track down his mother's killers and bring them to justice.

The narrator, an outsider to the reader's world, offers a unique perspective on a hidden drama that almost led to catastrophe. Eager to share this untold story, they promise insights into events that could have changed everything. The narrative hints at intrigue and suspense, suggesting that the tale is both personal and significant, revealing layers of complexity in a situation that remains largely unknown to the reader.

New York Times bestseller and 'one of the finest crime writer's America has ever produced' James Lee Burke returns with his latest masterpiece, the story of a father and son separated by war.

This is James Lee Burke's latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux. It is also much more than that. The story begins with the shooting of two would-be looters in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and then follows a motley group of characters - from street thugs to a big-time mob boss, from a junkie priest to a sadistic psychopath - as their stories converge on a cache of stolen diamonds, while the storm turns the Big Easy into a lawless wasteland of apocalyptic proportions. The nightmarish landscape created by Katrina seems the perfect setting for Burke's almost Biblical visions of good and evil - it is as if he had to wait for this disaster to find the occasion to match his emotionally supercharged prose. You can feel the undercurrents of rage and pain beneath the narrative, making this not only his most personal and deeply felt book for some time, but quite possibly his best novel to date. This is not just a superb crime novel, it is potentially THE fictional chronicle of a disaster whose human dimensions America is still struggling to process.

How did the popularity of underwear in the twelfth century lead to the invention of the printing press? How did the waterwheel evolve into the computer? How did the arrival of the cannon lead eventually to the development of movies? In this highly acclaimed and bestselling book, James Burke brilliantly examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological advances of today. With dazzling insight, he untangles the pattern of interconnecting events: the accidents of time, circumstance, and place that gave rise to the major inventions of the world. Says Burke, "My purpose is to acquaint the reader with some of the forces that have caused change in the past, looking in particular at eight innovations -- the computer, the production line, telecommunications, the airplane, the atomic bomb, plastics, the guided rocket, and television -- which may be most influential in structuring our own futures....Each one of these is part of a family of similar devices, and is the result of a sequence of closely connected events extending from the ancient world until the present day. Each has enormous potential for humankind's benefit -- or destruction." Based on a popular TV documentary series, Connections is a fascinating scientific detective story of the inventions that changed history -- and the surprising links that connect them.