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The 8th Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling and awardwinning author James Lee Burke

Sonny Boy Marsallas a New Orleans street hustler entrusts Detective Dave Robicheaux with a mysterious notebook kicking off a series of violent incidents and raising questions that need answers and fast

What did Sonnys girlfriend know that got her murdered Why is Sonny known as Red Angel by Central American guerrillas And what do the Mafia want with a desolate stretch of New Iberia This time Sonny Boy may have pushed his luck with the Giacano family one deal too far

A rich sardonic and terrifying portrayal of contemporary America with a setting which is as charged as an electric storm

Praise for one of the great American crime writers James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ a great American novelist whose work taken individually or as a whole is unsurpassed Michael Connelly

A gorgeous prose stylist Stephen King

Richly deserves to be described now as one of the finest crime writers America has ever produced Daily Mail

Fans of Dennis Lehane Michael Connelly and Don Winslow will love James Lee Burke