Heavens Prisoners, James Lee Burke
Heavens Prisoners, James Lee Burke
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Heaven's Prisoners

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Will Patton

Abridged: 3 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/1996

Synopsis

James Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life.

Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana’s bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life—and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he’s known since childhood; Rocque’s hungry Cajun wife; and a Federal agent with more guts than sense. In a backwater world where a swagger and a gun go further than the law, Robicheaux and those he loves are caught on a tide of violence far bigger than them all...

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 Bill on April 17, 2020

In this, the second Dave Robicheaux mystery, Dave turns in his badge and heads for the bayou. Soon the tranquility is shattered, and he is out for revenge. Good effective mystery, and the Louisiana atmosphere is a plus.......more

Goodreads review by Paul on May 31, 2015

'Most people think of violence as an abstraction. It never is. It's always ugly, it always demeans and dehumanises, it always shocks and repels and leaves the witnesses to it sick and shaken. It's meant to do all those things'.   Heaven's Prisoners is the second in the Dave Robicheaux series by Ja......more

Goodreads review by Scott on June 07, 2024

I don’t live in a place where wisteria and hibiscus waft in a sultry breeze or the sunset turns the sky a purple haze over swampland, but I don’t need to because I read James Lee Burke novels. I know that I read “Heaven’s Prisoners” many years ago, but reading it again reminded me of how awesome Burk......more

Goodreads review by Jenna on November 21, 2022

3 stars. I liked this one better than I liked the first one, but there are still a few cringey elements, largely due to the time period when this was written. But I own, like, ten more books in this series. So I'm going to continue with it, lol.......more

Goodreads review by Matt on December 17, 2014

Michael Jordan was a career eighty percent free-throw shooter. Which is quite good. For me, Heaven's Prisoners was something akin to watching Jordan shoot a boatload of free throws. Free throws are an essential part of the game--crucial--but, in the end, not why I watch in the first place. James Lee......more

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