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THE GLASS RAINBOW.
by BURKE, JAMES LEE
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About This Item
Gladestry: Scorpion Press, [2010]., 2010. First edition. First edition. Limited edition of 15 lettered copies, of which this is M, signed by the author and John Connolly. With an appreciation by John Connolly. Very fine in quarter leather and marbled boards with raised bands and gold stamping on the spine. As new in transparent dust jacket. When Dave Robicheaux gets the call saying his ex-partner Clete Purcel is in jail for felony assault and resisting arrest, bailing him out is instinctive. After all, Clete is the man who saved Dave's life by carrying him down a fire escape with two bullets in his back. But Clete's latest escapade isn't just worrying because it shows his demons are gaining the upper hand; it also brings some of those demons into Dave's life, in the most personal way possible. The man Clete assaulted, a big-time pimp and meth dealer, is a suspect in the murder of a series of young women, but his criminal activities are hidden behind his involvement in the St Jude Project, a charity aimed at getting young women off the streets.
Synopsis
James Lee BurkeâÈçs eagerly awaited new novel finds Detective Dave Robicheaux back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and embroiled in the most harrowing and dangerous case of his career. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high school honor student, doesnâÈçt fit: she is not the kind of hapless and marginalized victim psychopaths usually prey upon. Robicheaux and his best friend, Clete Purcel, confront Herman Stanga, a notorious pimp and crack dealer whom both men despise. When Stanga turns up dead shortly after a fierce beating by Purcel, in front of numerous witnesses, the case takes a nasty turn, and CleteâÈçs career and life are hanging by threads over the abyss. Adding to RobicheauxâÈçs troubles is the matter of his daughter, Alafair, on leave from Stanford Law to put the finishing touches on her novel. Her literary pursuit has led her into the arms of Kermit Abelard, celebrated novelist and scion of a once prominent Louisiana family whose fortunes are slowly sinking into the corruption of LouisianaâÈçs subculture. AbelardâÈçs association with bestselling ex-convict author Robert Weingart, a man who uses and discards people like Kleenex, causes Robicheaux to fear that Alafair might be destroyed by the man she loves. As his daughter seems to drift away from him, he wonders if he has become a victim of his own paranoia. But as usual, RobicheauxâÈçs instincts are proven correct and he finds himself dealing with a level of evil that is greater than any enemy he has confronted in the past. Set against the backdrop of an Edenic paradise threatened by pernicious forces, James Lee BurkeâÈçs The Glass Rainbow is already being hailed as perhaps the best novel in the Robicheaux series.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30390
- Title
- THE GLASS RAINBOW.
- Author
- BURKE, JAMES LEE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Scorpion Press, [2010].
- Place of Publication
- Gladestry
- Date Published
- 2010
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