Dixie City Jam, James Lee Burke
Dixie City Jam, James Lee Burke
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Dixie City Jam

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Mark Hammer

Unabridged: 14 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2012


Synopsis

From two-time Edgar Award–winner and New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a thrilling novel—now available in ebook—that pits Dave Robicheaux against the worst opponent he’s encountered yet.

It’s out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast—a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff’s office has known of its existence since childhood, when he was terrified by nightmares of the evil Nazi sailors just offshore. Then, as a teenager he stumbled upon the sunken sub while scuba diving—but for years he kept the secret of its watery grave.

But decades later, a powerful Jewish activist wants the sub raised, and Robicheaux’s knowledge puts him at the center of a terrifying struggle of conflicting desires. A neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter, who insists that the Holocaust was a hoax, wants to find the submarine first—and he’ll stop at nothing to get Robicheaux to talk.

With colorful characters, flawless plotting, and devilishly clever dialogue, Dixie City Jam is a spine-tingling suspense novel you won’t want to miss!

About James Lee Burke

American mystery author, James Lee Burke, was born in Houston, Texas, explaining why most of the lead characters in his novels are Texan. He has won two Edgar awards, which is a very rare experience, and is a bestselling author of two short story collections and over thirty novels. Burke is best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. His Edgar Awards were for Black Cherry and Cimarron Rose. Two of his series were made into screen plays with each movie having a-list actors playing the Robicheaux character (Alec Baldwin - Heaven's Prisoners, and Tommy Lee Jones- In the Electric Mist).

A writer must usually hold down other employment while they attempt to gain a degree of following readers. Burke's various jobs included.......truck driver, newspaper reporter, social worker, land surveyor, unemployment system employee, Job Corps worker, teacher, and finally, novelist.

Burke lives in Montana with his wife, Pearl, two daughters, and four grandchildren. His favorite advice was given by Irving Stone, when Burke was nineteen.......... "Never write a story to pay your gas bill......if you do, be assured your utilities will be turned off".


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cathy on July 30, 2012

If this book was a truck, it would be a heavy duty Ford able to pull a submarine out of the water. As number seven in the Dave Robicheaux series, this book, I believe, was the best one yet and that’s saying a lot since I’ve given them all four or five stars. (I don’t give out five stars easily.) Happ......more

Goodreads review by AndreaMarretti on August 30, 2024

Ritmo, ambientazione e caratterizzazione dei personaggi davvero favolosa: classico libro di cui non si riesce ad interrompere la lettura. Il romanzo parte in quinta già dalle prime pagine in cui si assiste ad un vero e proprio dispiegarsi rapido ed incalzante della trama che cresce fino _letteralment......more

Goodreads review by Steve on February 10, 2021

Once again, Burke does not disappoint. I may need to take a good long shower (or undertake some other ritual cleansing) before I get a good night sleep, but, with this one, I got exactly what I bargained for: compelling momentum (OK, I struggled to put it down and lost a bit of sleep), brutal violen......more

Goodreads review by James on January 02, 2019

This has been the hardest book of the series to read and yet I am still plugging away at it. I definitely felt the ending made up for the slow pace. Well worth reading.......more

Goodreads review by Harry on August 09, 2013

Book Review I suspect I have an edge as compared to most Burke fans. I have resided in the French Quarter so aptly described in the Burke novels. I've seen corruption and the broken infrastructure (pre-Katrina), smelled the molded heat lifting up from the pavement after a roaring rain, have had my sh......more