From Edgar Award-winner James Lee Burke comes this emotional powerhouse of a novel ... in which everyman hero Dave Robicheaux confronts the secrets of his long-forgotten past in a shattering tale of revenge, murder, and a mother's haunting legacy.... Robicheaux first hears it from a pimp eager to trade information for his life: Mae Guillory was murdered outside a New Orleans n...(展开全部)

Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son.But what has his mother's legacy left him?Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave's mind.He's lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey-dr...(展开全部)

When Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers disturbing secrets from his mother's past, he embarks on a journey through a murky world of vice, politics and murder. Robicheaux has been told that his mother, Mae, was a hooker and ended her life drowned in a mud puddle by two cops working for the Mob. As Robicheux and his partner hunt for the killers, they hook up with a door-to-door ...(展开全部)

詹姆斯•李•伯克一九三六年出生于得克萨斯州的休斯敦，一九六○年毕业于密苏里大学研究院，获文学硕士学位。伯克的表兄，安德烈•杜布斯是美国二十世纪最著名的短篇小说家之一。为了同表兄一较高下，詹姆斯•李•伯克在十九岁发表了第一部短篇小说。 一九六○年，伯克完成了他的第一部长篇小说《半面天堂》。《纽约时报》书评版为伯克的处女作发表了头条评论，评论家将其与纪德、福克纳、海明威、萨特以及哈代等人相比较。一举成名后，伯克的新作屡遭拒绝，《失而复得的布基》出版前被出版社拒绝了一百一十一次。此书后来为他赢得了普利策奖提名。在等待出版的九年中，伯克饱受酗酒带来的精神和健康问题的折磨。为了养家糊口，他做过石油公司工程师、记者、社工、大学英语教授。最后，詹姆斯•李•伯克转而创作侦探小说，推出了“戴夫•罗比乔克斯系列”，该系列作品占据了各大图书销售排行榜的榜首，售出多部电影改...(展开全部)