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Title: A Morning for Flamingos by James Lee Burke, Will Patton ISBN: 0-671-04408-7 Publisher: Audioworks Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $9.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: BURKE DOES IT AGAIN...
Comment: In this installment of the Dave Robicheaux series, James Lee Burke again paints a rich tapastry of the failings and triumphs of the human spirit set against the backdrop of southern Louisiana. As is true in his other novels, Burke uses his standard plot woven around career criminals, the disenfranchised,and the poor with a violent psychopath or two thrown in for good measure, to explore the complexity of human relationships and how and why past experiences can motivate us, even subconsicously, to behave in certain ways. All of Burke's characters are fully formed, three dimensional people that I felt like I knew by the end of the book. There wasn't a card board cutout among them. No body is ever really quite as good, or bad, as they initially seem( well, except for Jimmie Lee Boggs). I have read his books out of chronological order, and I do think there has been some drop off in recent years. Maybe this is due to building too many stories around the same basic plot of gangsters, low lifes, and crazed hitmen, or maybe now that Dave is married to Bootsie and has been in the same job for several novels, there hasn't been any room for any major new plot twists. Hopefully, Burke can explore Robicheaux's relationship with his daughter Alafair more as she becomes a young adult.
Rating: 5
Summary: There's not a finer crime/mystery author writing today.
Comment: Over the last 15 years, James Lee Burke's character of Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux has been established as one of the best and most intriguing in modern crime fiction. The intrigue continues in the fourth book of the Robicheaux series, A MORNING FOR FLAMINGOS. This time we find Dave critically wounded and his partner killed after a prisoner transport goes awry. After his recovery, Dave is sent undercover by the DEA to try to bring down a drug dealer from his old stomping ground, New Orleans.
Dave's old homicide partner Clete Purcel is a big part of this novel, as well as the rest of the series, and is the no-holds-barred sometimes law-bending character that Robicheaux fans are used to. We also find another appearance from DEA agent Minos Dautrieve, who had a big role in the earlier Burke novel (and subsequent film starring Alec Baldwin) HEAVEN'S PRISONERS. These two, along with all the others surrounding the story, provide a great story for the reader.
The story is believable, the characters are believable, and at times the reader really starts to sympathize with people in the story that you are really not supposed to be cheering for! Nothing registers with a reader quite like a character with feelings, and these characters really come across that way.
I've read several of the Burke/Robicheaux novels and this is right up there at the top of the class.
Rating: 4
Summary: Tough Time in New Orleans
Comment: This 4th book in the Dave Robicheaux series is a tense, gritty visit to the old quarter of New Orleans. Early on, Dave is shot in the chest by Jimmie Lee Boggs, a death row prisoner who was in the process of being transferred in preparation for his execution. After recovering, Dave is asked by the DEA to work undercover in New Orleans in a sting operation to put away Mafia don Tony Cardo. The added lure is the opportunity to catch Boggs and repay him for the bullet.
Once he gains the trust of Cardo, Dave finds himself developing a liking for the crime boss, regardless of the misery he is responsible for dealing out. The feeling of affection is mutual, with a deep respect developing between the two men. He finds that he has to struggle to keep focussed on the reason he's there and put his new friendship aside.
Dave Robicheaux is still a man in torment, particularly after the trauma of being shot had reawakened the nightmares he hoped to have put behind him. James Lee Burke's Louisiana is a grim and dangerous place at times, yet the mouth-watering cuisine seems to make all the danger worthwhile. This is another solid effort in a tremendous series.
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Title: A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0380720477 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0743449193 Publisher: Pocket Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James L. Burke ISBN: 038072121X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0786889004 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Burning Angel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback)) by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0786889047 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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