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Product Identifiers

PublisherDoubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.

ISBN-100385488424

ISBN-139780385488426

eBay Product ID (ePID)379086

Product Key Features

Book TitleSunset Limited

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / Suspense

Publication Year1998

GenreFiction

AuthorJames Lee Burke

Book SeriesDave Robicheaux Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight20.7 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-023893

ReviewsCritical acclaim for James Lee Burke: "If you haven't already discovered Burke's novels, find one." --Chicago Tribune "Burke is a brilliant descriptive writer, perhaps the best in modern American fiction." --Portland Oregonian "Terrific reading. Few writers in America can evoke a region as well as Burke." --Philadelphia Inquirer "Burke is a master at setting mood, laying in atmosphere, all with quirky, raunchy dialogue that's a delight." --Elmore Leonard "Burke flies miles above most contemporary crime novelists." --Orlando Sentinel

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

SynopsisDetective Dave Robicheaux re-turns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history,Sunset Limitedis a stunning achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of America's premier stylists as well as master storytellers. "Not since Raymond Chandler has anyone so thoroughly reinvented the crime and mystery genre," said novelist Jim Harrison, and inSunset LimitedBurke continues to carve out new territory. As always in the fiction of James Lee Burke, the past impinges on the present: The forty-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labor leader named Jack Flynn remains an unsolved atrocity that has never been forgotten in New Iberia, Louisiana. When Flynn's daughter, Megan, a photojournalist drawn to controversial subjects, returns to the site of her father's murder, it quickly becomes clear that her family's bloodstained past will not stay buried. Megan gives her old friend Dave Robicheaux a tip about a small-time criminal named Cool Breeze Broussard, scarcely suspecting that the seemingly innocuous case will lead Robicheaux and his partner, Helen Soileau, into the midst of a deadly conspiracy. As New Orleans mobsters and mysterious hit men converge on his parish, Robicheaux soon finds that all the clues point back in time to the tortured death of Jack Flynn. Combining brilliant prose, crackling suspense, and an exquisite sense of character and place,Sunset Limitedis a wrenching tale of historic violence and soiled redemption that reveals one of America's finest novelists at his masterful best.

LC Classification NumberPS3552.U723S86 1998