The Tin Roof Blowdown
- Authors: James Lee Burke
- Series: Book 16 in the Dave Robicheaux series
- Genres: Mystery
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- Release Date: July 17, 2007
- Print length: 384 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
In the final days of summer in 2005, a storm of greater devastation than the bomb that hit Hiroshima ravages southern Louisiana, stripping away the landscape.
It is this horrific reality that Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux encounters when he is sent to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The city's commercial and residential areas are now overrun with looters and criminals of all kinds, with no semblance of law or order in sight. The once vibrant city has been reduced to chaos, resembling a medieval society in ruins. Among the chaos, Robicheaux must search for two serial rapists, a priest addicted to morphine, and a vigilante who may pose an even greater threat than the criminals running amok.
With his distinctive writing style that transcends traditional genres, James Lee Burke paints a grim and haunting portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans. Through a cast of intricate characters and their actions at their darkest and most courageous, The Tin Roof Blowdown is not just a gripping crime novel, but a poignant tale of bravery and sacrifice that critics are hailing as Burke's finest work yet.
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