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When Dave Robicheaux gets the call saying his ex-partner Clete Purcel is in jail for felony assault and resisting arrest, bailing him out is instinctive. After all, Clete is the man who saved Dave's life by carrying him down a fire escape with two bullets in his back. But Clete's latest escapade isn't just worrying because it shows his demons are gaining the upper hand; it also brings some of those demons into Dave's life, in the most personal way possible. The man Clete assaulted, a big-time pimp and meth dealer is a suspect in the murder of a series of young women - but his criminal activities are hidden behind his involvement in the St Jude Project, a charity aimed at getting young women off the streets. As Dave probes the charity further, he finds that its main sponsor is a man called Calice Abelard, the smooth-talking scion of a wealthy family, and a man whose motives Dave instinctively mistrusts. He also happens to be Dave's daughter's boyfriend.
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James Lee Burke, 1938 in Louisiana geboren, wurde bereits Ende der 60er Jahre von der Literaturkritik als neue Stimme aus dem Süden gefeiert. Doch nach drei erfolgreichen Romanen wandte er sich erst Mitte der 80er Jahre dem Kriminalroman zu, in dem er die unvergleichliche Atmosphäre von New Orleans mit packenden Storys verband. Burke, der als einer von zwei Autoren sogar zweimal mit dem begehrten Edgar-Allan-Poe-Preis für den besten Kriminalroman des Jahres ausgezeichnet wurde, lebt abwechselnd in Missoula/Montana und New Orleans.
