Summary
Dave Robicheaux, the hero of a brilliant series of crime novels by James Lee Burke, has always been an angry lawman, but rarely have we seen him in such a murderous rage.
The city he loves has been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and for this he blames both "the homegrown parasites that have sucked the life out of Louisiana for generations" and the callous indifference of every president of the United States since Ronald Reagan.See the full content of this document
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Novel Is Stunning Elegy to Big Easy
The government's efforts to rescue the victims were not just venal and incompetent, but "an American watershed in the history of political cynicism."
And the "Herculean" job of rebuilding has been compounded "by a leve...See the full content of this document
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