Pegasus Descending, James Lee Burke
Pegasus Descending, James Lee Burke
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Pegasus Descending
A Dave Robicheaux Novel

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Will Patton

Unabridged: 12 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/18/2006

Synopsis

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.

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 Paul on November 04, 2023

Harry Bosch's psychological baggage ain't got nothin' on Dave Robicheaux! Twenty-five years ago, deep in his cups with a keg's worth of beer and accompanying chasers under his belt, an alcoholic Dave Robicheaux witnessed the gangland execution of his friend, Dallas Klein. Swearing off the sauce and f......more

Goodreads review by Mark on April 18, 2009

I have a love/hate relationship with James Lee Burke. I continue to buy his books and then let them sit in my to-read queue for a long time. Then, needing a break from other genres, I sigh, pick up his latest Dave Robicheaux novel, blow off the dust, and am enthralled. His writing is beautiful and da......more

Goodreads review by Emilie on November 28, 2010

James Lee Burke is one of the most talented writers out there. His descriptions of Louisiana are so evocative I feel like I'm sitting on the bayou with Dave Robicheaux. These are dark books, sometimes frighteningly so, but I always come back to them and I'm always sorry when the story ends. I'm list......more

Goodreads review by David on December 05, 2012

My first and only James Burke novel before this one was: RAIN GODS. And, I remember it being very dark and dreary, quite like reading McCarthy. However, Burke seems to give the reader some sort of redemption in his endings. And, this is what I most remember about that book. PEGASUS DESCENDING is my f......more

Goodreads review by Aditya on July 19, 2019

The series' two best runs were from books #2-#4 and #9-#11. The first one resulted in the top Edgar award, the second one the Golden Dagger. The rest of the series including Pegasus Descending stays pretty good but is essentially riffing off the same ideas and material that most Burke fans would kno......more

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