Purple Cane Road
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4,4 • 5 notes
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
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Elle s'appelait Mae Robicheaux, née Guillory. Elle avait quitté son foyer pour fuir un mari alcoolique alors que son fils n'était encore qu'un gamin. Elle était devenue serveuse dans une boîte de Purple Cane Road, et elle avait trouvé la mort à quelques kilomètres de là. Assassinée dans des circonstances jamais éclaircies. C'est le meurtre d'un petit maquereau nommé Zipper Clum qui fait remonter toute l'histoire à la surface et c'est ainsi que Dave Robicheaux se met en quête des assassins de sa mère. Émouvante plongée dans le passé du personnage fétiche de James Lee Burke, Purple Cane Road est aussi un roman policier magistralement construit dans lequel l'auteur réaffirme avec force sa vision de l'humanité. C'est l'un des chefs-d'oeuvre de Burke.
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HAfter the relatively lightweight Sunset Limited (1998), Cajun cop Dave Robicheaux returns in a powerhouse of a thriller that shows Burke writing near the peak of his form. Robicheaux faces his most personal case yet, when a pimp puts him on the trail of the truth behind his mother's long-ago disappearance. Meanwhile, he uncovers new evidence in the case of death-row inmate Letty Labiche, who took a mattock to the man who molested her as a child, state executioner Vachel Carmouche. Burke parades the usual cast of grotesques: feckless Louisiana governor Belmont Pugh; cold-blooded attorney general Connie Deshotel; sleazy police liaison officer Jim Gable, who "keeps the head of a Vietnamese soldier in a jar of chemicals"; and psychopathic hit man Johnny Remata, who acts as all-around avenging angel. Wife Bootsie's having had a fling with Gable drives Robicheaux into a jealous fury more than once, while daughter Alafair's flirtation with Johnny raises the temperature even higher. Old buddy Clete Purcell doesn't have a lot to do, other than to contribute to the general mayhem. Once Robicheaux learns that his mother fell afoul of a couple of New Orleans cops in the pay of the Giacano crime family, it's a simple matter of identifying the guilty pair and bringing them to justiceDor is it? Burke winds up an often convoluted and gratuitously violent plot with a dynamite ending that will leave readers feeling truly satisfied, if a bit shell-shocked. Major ad/promo; author tour.
