Pegasus Descending
A Dave Robicheaux Novel
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4.5 • 216 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Dave Robicheaux is back in a dangerous mystery that involves stolen money, gritty casinos, and a beautiful girl with connections to his past.
When a nice young woman named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana, passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down on his new life of contentment. Twenty-five years ago, lost in a drunken haze in Florida, Robicheaux was too far gone to save his friend and fellow ’Nam vet Dallas Klein, murdered in cold blood for gambling debts. Now, the arrival of Dallas’s daughter opens a door locked long ago, and extracting her motives points Robicheaux to the suicide of a local “good girl” pulled into a vortex of power, sex, and death. It’s Robicheaux’s most personally painful case—a roller coaster of passion, surprise, and regret—and it may be his deadliest.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Drawing on classical antecedents, bestseller Burke peoples his 15th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2004's Crusader's Cross) with his usual assortment of near mythic characters, demonstrating how our everyday lives are beset with age-old, universal dilemmas. New Iberia, La., detective Dave Robicheaux, for whom redemption has become a lifelong pursuit, suits up once again to tilt against villains both real and in his own troubled psyche. Twenty-five years earlier, the young alcohol-soaked cop witnessed his friend and fellow Vietnam vet, Dallas Klein, executed by a group of cold-blooded thugs. He was unable to intercede because he was plastered. Now, a young grifter who may be the victim's daughter, Trish Klein, has appeared in New Iberia, passing counterfeit money and baiting Whitey Bruxal, the aging mobster responsible for Dallas's death. Meanwhile, Dave investigates the apparent suicide of pretty young co-ed Yvonne Darbonne. Are the two cases linked? Dave thinks so, and he enlists longtime loose-cannon sidekick Clete Purcel to prove it. With peerless naturalistic descriptions and lush, metaphysical imagery, Burke creates another challenging morality play for his flawed, everyman hero.
Customer Reviews
Poetry on the Bayou
Few can evoke that special place which is Louisiana with such heart and lyrical soul...you're a treasure James Lee and you've helped me understand more about where my family is from than any history book
Pegasus Descending
Excellent! The story is filled with the atmosphere of the locale. The literary allusions clearly indicate that Burke is a very well read man. Like Somerset Maugham writing a Mickey Spillane story. Dialogue (and dialect) are first rate. Enjoyed this tale from beginning to end.
Pegasus Descending
This is a great story on several levels. For me, one of the many who served in the Vietnam War, each time he mentions a moment in his memory of the War, I identify with it in some way. We have felt the same loss and anguish, trod the same jungle and experienced the same aftermath. No one who has not been in War cannot know what shape the returnee is in. His or her dreams and the battle they fight every day and night. As a former Police Officer I also identify with the battle that never ends and the pain of deceit and betrayal you experience. The writer holds your attention and when you finish, you are not disappointed. Lastly, having lived on Pensacola Beach during Hurricanes Ivan and Dennis and Katrina, I know about the destruction these storms bring. I eagerly await the next story. Oh, by the way, I went through the periods of drinking as our hero did, for the same reasons. I got out the other side, severely damaged by everything, but now am ok.