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The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries) | 
 enlarge | Author: James Lee Burke
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  127 reviews
Sales Rank: 4272
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1416548505
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416548508
ASIN: 1416548505
Publication Date: June 17, 2008
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Product Description
In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana.This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has been destroyed, New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city. In a singular style that defies genre, James Lee Burke has created a hauntingly bleak picture of life in New Orleans after Katrina. Filled with complex characters and depictions of people at both their best and worst, The Tin Roof Blowdown is not only an action-packed crime thriller, but a poignant story of courage and sacrifice that critics are already calling Burke's best work.
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 Hurricane Katrina August 29, 2008
One of the most haunting accounts of the effects of hurricane Katrina and the geopolitical contributions to the devastation of the storm as well as the aftermath.
Fantastic interweaving of various characters, none of them exactly what they seem
Still entertaining after all these years August 25, 2008
Tin Roof Blowdown is fascinating and depressing at the same time. I've been to Louisiana many times and have roamed all over the Cajun area - altho I've come across many people I might call "unique" or "colorful" compared to the relatively dull persons I know here in Ohio, Burke's writing can leave a reader with the impression that Louisiana is some kind of huge open-air sideshow. Not that I don't eagerly grab up the Dave Robicheaux novels as soon as I find them at my local bookseller!
 This Is My First JLB Novel... August 17, 2008
Although I've been an avid reader all my life, somehow I'd never heard of James Lee Burke before noticing "Tin Roof Blowdown" at the corner grocery market one night when desperate for reading material and there was nothing by familiar favorite authors in the bookstand. So I took a chance and by 10 pages in that night, I was hooked on Mr. Burke -- that was my first novel of his but it certainly won't be my last. Fantastic writer! Robicheaux is an intriguing, complex leading man and Burke's telling of the Katrina tragedy is RIVETING, SUSPENSEFUL, MOVING, MULTI-LAYERED. His writing is poetic and thought-provoking yet moves like a speeding train, I couldn't put the book down all weekend, it's one of the best books I've ever read. That was only a month ago and I've read two more JLB novels, the two latest Billy Bob Holland stories and I found them both fascinating and can't wait for the next Holland epic. And I'm looking forward to more Robicheax, I'll be reading them all. No wonder this writer won two Edgars, and now he's won a Franilla!
 So-so Detective Story August 15, 2008
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This is an overly-long detective story. Some of the characters and their stories go nowhere. The ending can be seen ages before, and I found that I wanted the book to hurry up and "get it over with."
 still waiting August 12, 2008
I have been waiting a few years for a first rate Robicheaux novel to come along. not since Purple Cane Road have I been absorbed by the series. I got hooked on the series reading Sunset Limited. in this latest installment there were flashes of brilliance, but I was left underwhelmed by the character of Bertrand Melancon (brutal robber, murderer, rapist- but we were supposed to feel sympathy for him as he tried to make amends with his paper towel apology)-give me a break.
Alafair uses profane graphic descriptions to tell off a creep- overrought and melodramatic.
Molly is a lame replacement for Bootsie (and Annie for that matter). Her basic goodness is her only facet.
I love Mr. Burke's writing, but sadly The edgy Robicheaux of yesteryear has disappeared. How I wish for another Heaven's prisoners type installment!
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