The Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke
The Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke
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The Tin Roof Blowdown
A Dave Robicheaux Novel

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Will Patton

Abridged: 5 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/17/2007

Synopsis

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Mystery

Dave Robicheaux returns in an adventure as timely as real life: the fight against crime, and the fight for life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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 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.

Author Bio

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 Tea on May 04, 2013

Nije loš autor, i ne piše loše, ali smatram da nije za naše tržište, tj. da je mala ciljna grupa za njega na ovim prostorima... Možda je previše "američki"... Ne znam ni sama... Ali da me je Algoritam konsultovao na vreme ovaj autor ne bi bio objavljen na srpski... dovoljno je hrvatsko izdanje.........more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on April 16, 2008

Burkes mystery takes place at the same time as Katrina and he does describe horrible events that went on there in the context of his book so we see people fighting over scarce resources and bodies floating in the waters and rescuers saving people etc and I have no real beef with his limited descript......more

Goodreads review by Eli on January 15, 2008

I have never been disappointed by a James Lee Burke novel, and this, most recent in the Dave Robicheaux series, is no exception. Robiicheaux is a wonderfully complex character, genuinely and consistently conflicted between his visceral urges and more socially acceptable behaviors. Robicheaux, a Sheri......more

Goodreads review by Rick on September 20, 2011

Can I give this one TEN STARS? ... I love James Lee Burke's writing, and I consider him THE BEST writer working today (Shakespeare and Hawthorne are dead.) I used to think HEARTWOOD was truly his best book to date, but this, pardon the expression, blows everything he's written out of the water. It i......more

Goodreads review by Aditya on November 15, 2019

Burke has been consistently brilliant at writing about nightmares that lurk just below society's subconscious. In a macabre way, post Katrina New Orleans is the perfect setting for him. The hurricane ravaged the city and provided a once in a lifetime free for all buffet for every lowlife as law and......more

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