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Burning Angel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries) Hardcover – August 1, 1995
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Defending an African-American farm family from local mobsters who want their land, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux travels from his native New Orleans to Central America in pursuit of a notorious gambler and hit man.
In his latest absorbing and violent adventure, moody Louisiana deputy Dave Robichaux confronts plaited evils: ages-old injustices based on race and class; the legacies suffered by modern-day mercenaries for their sins in Vietnam and central America; and the New Orleans mob. Old Bertha Fontenont comes to Dave for help in claiming the property that was promised her sharecropper ancestors 95 years earlier. Moleen Bertrand, heir of the plantation where that property lies and where Jean Lafitte was rumored to have buried gold, is planning to bulldoze the Fontenont cottages. At the same time, Sonny Boy Marsallus, a local whose escapades in the Guatemalan jungle have given him a reputation for a preternatural ability to survive, has asked Dave to hold on to his journal while he tries to steer clear of some vengeful Mafia-hired hit men. As Bertrand's personal life, secretly intertwined with another Fontenont, surfaces, Dave faces a thug said to have trained Idi Amin at an Israeli jump school and also gets suspended (after losing his temper and causing some serious damage at a Mafia hangout). Burke's lush, humid prose and the controlled, otherworldly aspects of this plot deftly capture the inhumanity of the bad guys and the more common frailties of ordinary folk. It's sometimes hard to keep track of who's good and who's bad in this foggy moral terrain, but the confusion has the feel of real life. Series fans will be glad that Dave's wife, Bootsie, isn't troubled by her lupus condition and will marvel that their adopted daughter Alafair, now a teenager, is old enough to need to know how to shoot. $250,000 ad/promo; 22-city author tour; audio release from Simon & Schuster. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
In the last few years, the publisher has managed to build the modestly successful Burke into a best-selling mystery author with works like Dixie City Jam (LJ 4/1/94). Here, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux tries to help the Fontenot family figure out who's trying to force them off their land?and runs up against a nasty bunch of mobsters with ties to the notorious Sonny Boy Marsallus. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Like a Cajun fiddler who won't let go of the last plaintive notes in a slow waltz, James Lee Burke seems able to sustain indefinitely the fever pitch of melancholia that drives his Dave Robicheaux mysteries. Wherever on-again, off-again cop Dave turns in his New Iberia, Louisiana, home, he's surrounded by the past--its slow-moving, wisteria-blooming glories and its slavery-induced horrors--but, more and more, it's the present he can't escape, the ever-encroaching floodwaters of modernity, bringing with them the drug dealers, the land developers, the dirty politicians, and the right-wing crazies, all looking to displace the memory of what was with the nightmare of what is. The battle continues here, as Dave becomes involved in the struggle of the Fontenots, descendants of black sharecroppers, to keep the land they've lived on for more than a century and which a mysterious right-wing group seems to covet. Swirling around the action is the enigmatic figure of Sonny Boy Marsallus, former soldier of fortune turned avenging angel, hunted by both mobsters and right-wingers. To Dave, Sonny is a stand-up guy who "proved to the rest of us that you could live with the full-tilt boogie in your heart." But Sonny is dead, maybe, and Dave is drifting without moorings, wondering if "history might not be waiting to have its way with all of us." It's amazing that Burke manages to keep playing this same gut-wrenching tune without its beginning to sound like fingernails on a blackboard, but every time our ears start to hurt, he finds a new way to bend the same note, and we're hooked again. Bill Ott
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Hyperion; 1st edition (August 1, 1995) Language
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352 pages ISBN-10
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0786860820 ISBN-13
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978-0786860821 Item Weight
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1.5 pounds Dimensions
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6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
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This is book 8 of a 23 book series. It was written 25 years ago. First of all, I am a fan of James Lee Burke. I am from Louisiana and understand the culture he writes about.I try to read any series more or less in order. As with any series, after 7-8 books the writer has a lot of repetition. Burning angel had no plot,story, or ending. It was over 400 pages of filler. At the end of this book, it just stopped. It has a half dozen un answered questions. I love descriptive writing but I don’t need to know how the air smells every time Dave leaves a building. He repeats over and how the sun rises and sets. How the moss looks and the cane field sways in the breeze. It seemed like most of the characters kept haven’t flash backs of Viet Nam or Korea-with no connection to the story line. As far as the characters, I just couldn’t keep them straight. It was incredible to me that Dave could walk into a restaurant in New Orleans, beat the crap of the head of the mafia while he was surrounded by his body guards and just walk away. I was thinking if Dave Robicheaux eats another ham and onion sandwich I will just die. Some phrases/words repeated often—neon,copacetic,ham and onion sandwich,mist, and my favorite, pork pie hat I will probably lay off a while before read book #9. In summary, the author was off on this one. I felt like he had a deadline and just filled in the spaces with pulp.
James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux series transcends the bounds of detective fiction and deserves the title of literature. Burning Angel, the eighth book in his time-tested series, proves the point. These novels are worth reading for their prose style alone. They’re written as well as anything I’ve read that is deemed Southern literature. Lyricism and brutality in James Lee Burke Burke’s prose is lyrical when describing the lush environment of rural Louisiana, brutally graphic in passages that describe the ever-present violence. Burke’s not for the squeamish. But if you can stand the heat, you’ll be well rewarded. In Burning Angel, as in so much of the series, Dave Robicheaux tangles with the New Orleans mob when its tentacles extend into his own territory, New Iberia Parish. This time the Giacano crime family takes a bow. The wounded Vietnam veteran, former New Orleans police lieutenant, now deputy sheriff, and future private investigator finds himself face-to-face with the family’s predictably violent and probably deranged soldiers. Key among them is a crafty local thug named Sonny Marsallus, whom Dave knew as a child growing up in Iberia parish. A cast of characters, familiar and unfamiliar The series’ familiar characters are all present. Dave’s second wife, Bootsie; their adopted daughter, Alafair, now thirteen; the elderly Black man, Batist, who works with Dave in the bait-and-sandwich shop in his back yard; Dave’s predictably unpredictable former NOPD partner, Cletus Purcel; and an elected sheriff who had no prior police experience. The novel introduces a fresh cast of bad guys, including a corrupt cop, a bent wealthy lawyer, brothel owners, poor local African-Americans, and an assortment of psychopaths associated with the New Orleans mob. In any one of the Dave Robicheaux novels, you can safely expect that not just Dave but everyone around him, including his wife and daughter, will be threatened with danger. You can also expect Dave to exhibit physical courage to the point of foolhardiness. Clete Purcel is even worse. At times, it appears that the two of them are more violent than the criminals they’re chasing. But it’s all in what might, at a stretch, be called fun.
Book reviewers probably overuse "atmospheric" in their critiques, but to describe James Lee Burke's writing as atmospheric is akin to observing that Daniel Steele's literary talents are "shallow". In fact, if Burke has a flaw, it is that the settings are so dense and powerful that the plot can be, if not lost, at crushed by the atmospheric pressure. Burke writes of southern Louisiana with a mix of pride and frustration, of steamy bayous and rusted car bodies, of antebellum mansions presiding over tin shacks. Lots of pain, precious little joy. Burke's south is a mystical place, where from the swampy mists the ghost of a Confederate soldier is as likely to break as is the sun. He pens his lyrical prose with a fatalism and pathos that only a diehard, but sincere, liberal can master. From this atmosphere, the story of "Burning Angel" slowly unwinds. Dave Robicheaux, the perpetually haunted and self-suffering cop of backwater Iberia, LA, agrees to help the local po' black folk get to the bottom of a land dispute with the wealthy gentry. (I like Robicheaux's character - he is written with an uncommon depth, sensitivity, passion but also in-your-face toughness - but can anyone remember Robicheaux laughing - ever?) Enter Sonny Boy Marsallus, a seemingly 'common' thug, were it not for his uncommon sense of honor and loyalty. Marsallus has a mysterious past, linked through the Central American jungles to the past of Robicheaux ex-NOPD partner and friend, the inimitable Clete Purcell. The plot is not straightforward, which is OK, as it allows Burke plenty of time to weave in another set of unforgettable supporting characters, heavily weighted towards New Orleans mobsters and cutthroat militant mercenaries. Throw in the lure of Jean Lafitte buried treasure and just a hint of the supernatural, and you'll be hooked on another melancholy and thoroughly entertaining brand of crime fiction that has become a Burke trademark. Kick back and succumb to Burke's humid tale of brutality without redemption. Fiction doesn't get much more noir, nor entertaining, than this.
I enjoyed this novel in the series less than the previous ones. A few too many characters that I’m not sure related to one another. I enjoy Burke’s descriptions of scenes and people, but frankly there was an over abundance of that in this story. But, I will read the next installment.
2.0 out of 5 stars
MIchael Connelly is better.
I have read them all thru to this one, number 8 in series. I think this must be a bit stream of consciousness. The "Electric Mist" one is the best in series so far. If I was struggling for a good crime thriller I would try number 9 in the series, but am looking for alternatives now. The characters all blend together - not defined clearly. The main character "Dave" is recognisable but seems to use his alcohol and Vietnam experiences as an excuse to act badly. The story meandered slowly. I skimmed. And I do admit I still do not know what it was all about. I am just your average reader with average intelligence - but this made no sense to me. I thought "The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy was heavy going but far better than this "Burning Angel" - and actually the Hardy novel was far more easy to understand. Try Michael Connelly the Bosch books every one a number 5 rating. And surely not everyone around New Orleans is involved with the mafia or a racist, as seems the case as depicted by James Lee Burke. Oh yes and the character of "Clete" is really corny. With his dialogue of "podna" and "hey mon" - just sounds silly.
I have enjoyed reading about dave robicheaux but the last two books have been awful, painfully written and annoyingly I can't get a refund on this. Gave up early on this instalment
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant, as always.
The master craftsman of words James Lee Burke never fails to entertain, profound and poetic, his stories linger forever in one's conscious. A detective thriller that keeps up the action and rhetoric throughout. We are not readers unless we read his magnificent works of art.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great story line and read
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James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He’s authored thirty-seven novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
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Burning Angels (バーニングエンジェル) is a shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Naxat Soft for the PC Engine in 1990 only in Japan. [1]
Gameplay consists of 7 stages, and the game allows for simultaneous co-op play. [1] The game also allows for horizontal or vertical screen view. [1]
Burning Angels received generally moderately positive reviews, including 82% from Génération 4 , [2] 69% from RAZE , [3] and 58% from Power Play . [4] Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu gave the game a score of 23 out of 40. [1]
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