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Pegasus Descending:

A Dave Robicheaux Novel
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Pocket Star, 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.

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OK, yes, Burke is a good, poetic, sensitive writer. - Goodreads
I love the raw style of writing. - Goodreads
I believe that is why I like his writing so much. - Goodreads

Review: Pegasus Descending (Dave Robicheaux #15)

User Review  - Scott - Goodreads

Pegasus Descending is a continuation of the Dave Robicheaux novels, and there-in lies the trouble. Burke is best at descriptive flights, and the word-smithing he puts into describing Louisiana. He is ... Read full review

Review: Pegasus Descending (Dave Robicheaux #15)

User Review  - David S. - Goodreads

My first and only James Burke novel before this one was: RAIN GODS. And, I remember it being very dark and dreary, quite like reading McCarthy. However, Burke seems to give the reader some sort of ... Read full review

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About the author (2007)

James Lee Burke, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, is the author of thirty-one previous novels and two collections of short stories, including such New York Times bestsellers as The Glass RainbowSwan Peak, The Tin Roof Blowdown, Last Car to Elysian Fields, and Rain Gods. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

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