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Crusader's Cross - James Lee Burke


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Crusader's Cross - James Lee Burke

 
Description: ISBN 0753820935 / Author: James Lee Burke / Genre: Crime / Thriller

Newest Review: ... books and casts a long shadow over his character. The majority (if not all) of the series covers his time in New Iberia, ... more

 ... often with his partner Helen Soileau. He has been married twice, to Annie and Bootsie, but both women are now dead (murdered and illness respectively) and he has an adopted daughter, Alafair, who is now away at college. This is where we find him in this book. Living alone and recently retired part of him is glad of the peace and solitude but another part chafes at the lack of purpose and when a tantalising mystery is presented to him he is keen to get his teeth (and his fists) back into the game. Synopsis~ The book o...more

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Dave Robicheaux seems to have been around for a long time now. I first came across him more than ten years ago, at which time he already had several novels in his name. Since then I have made great strides in working through the back catalogue while at the same time infrequently keeping up with the roughly biennially issued new work. Despite my best half-hearted efforts I never managed to nail down the exact chronology of the series and subsequently have read them horribly out of sequence. This isn't a huge issue as each novel has so far stood comfortably in isolation, and any serial characters are provided with enough background for the reader to know they are ...  Read the complete review

 

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