Flags on the Bayou

In the fall of 1863, the Union Army controls the Mississippi River and much of Louisiana, as the Civil War rolls on. Wade Lufkin is a man without a country or a cause - an idle spectator since New Orleans surrendered, he now paints at his uncle''s plantation. That is until he finds an intriguing new subject... Hannah Laveau is an enslaved woman who stands accused of everything from adultery to insurrection, from magic to murder. But all she wants is to find her missing son - and she will risk her life for it. When Hannah goes on the run, she must dodge the calculating and merciless local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayou as she flees through Louisiana, from the cottonmouth snakes and tree-lined swamps to the dingy saloons of New Orleans. From ''the king of Southern noir'' ( Daily Mirror ) comes a powerful and deeply moving Civil War thriller - a story of tragic acts of war, lost and desperate people, and love enduring through it all. PRAISE FOR JAMES LEE BURKE, THE AWARD-WINNING KING OF SOUTHERN NOIR: ''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 ''No argument: James Lee Burke is among the finest of all contemporary American novelists'' Daily Mail

Product details

• Authors: James Lee Burke
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2023
• EAN: 9781398715516
• ISBN: 978-1-398-71551-6
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical mysteries, FICTION / Thrillers / Military, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, FICTION / Gothic, FICTION / Southern, c 1800 to c 1900, Historical crime and mysteries, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery