Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

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Simon and Schuster, Aug 28, 2007 - Fiction - 487 pages
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.
 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
17
Section 3
39
Section 4
50
Section 5
67
Section 6
92
Section 7
110
Section 8
125
Section 14
234
Section 15
253
Section 16
269
Section 17
290
Section 18
305
Section 19
324
Section 20
336
Section 21
357

Section 9
142
Section 10
160
Section 11
179
Section 12
200
Section 13
219
Section 22
381
Section 23
398
Section 24
421
Section 25
439
Section 26
470

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James Lee Burke, winner of two Edgar awards, is the author of nineteen previous novels, many of them "New York Times" bestsellers, including "Cimmaron Rose", Cadillac Jukebox", & "Sunset Limited". He & his wife divide their time between Missoula, Montana, & New Iberia, Louisiana.

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