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The Tin Roof Blowdown

by James Lee Burke

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The Tin Roof Blowdown

New Orleans is awash with corpses after Hurricane Katrina unleashes its awesome power. In a city patrolled only by looters, all law and order gone, the survivors wait in trees or on rooftops for help that never comes. In a landscape transformed into a violent wasteland, Dave Robicheaux must investigate the shooting of two looters and find out why some very dangerous people are hunting a third. Is it because they unwittingly ransacked the house of a notorious mob boss? Or did a chance encounter with the father of a raped girl seal their fate? As Robicheaux starts to uncover a ruthless tale of greed, torture and murder, his own family comes under threat from a sinister psychopath, and the devastated city provides the perfect stage for a final confrontation between good and evil.

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The Katrina novel

This the 16th in the Dave Robicheaux series but can easily be read as a standalone. James Lee Burke spares us nothing as Katrina unleashes itself on New Orleans, the book’s plot very much being second to natural disaster and it’s consequences. A lesser author would have produced sensationalist pulp; Burke writes the swansong of the city he loves.

Review by Marina of the London - Brent Cross Borders on 2009-02-07 11:02:53
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The Tin Roof Blowndown

Set during and after Hurricain katrina the latest Dave Robincheauex novel is another masterclass in crime writing, another classic for James Lee Burke

Review by Norman of the Newcastle - Silverlink Borders on 2009-02-19 13:45:38