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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780743449205
ISBN number: 0743449207
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 275
Printing Date: October 01, 2002
Publishing house: Pocket
Release Date: October 01, 2002
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAMES LEE BURKE
THE NEON RAIN
Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive.
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Great read! The dialogue is well written and believable. Story moves at a fast but comfortable pace. Engaging....
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Great book! Can't get enough of James Lee Burke's books!!!!! Once you start to read them you can't put them down.
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This is the very first book in the James Lee Burke series with Detective Dave Robicheaux. Takes place in New Orleans, reads like a Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler story - old fashioned, hard-boiled detective story. Rich in characters and a sense of Louisiana. Doesn't take long to read, but I highly recommend it!!
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There's nothing like a James Lee Burke novel! Neon Rain is the beginning of the Dave Robicheaux series, and it is an excellent read. Burke's style is unique -- he likes to make the reader think. Nothing is ever spoonfed to us.
For example, there is this dark passage about a very bad man, the antagonist, dying from cancer, alone:
"Somewhere down inside him, he knew that his fear of death by water had always been a foolish one. Death was a rodent that ate its way inch by inch through your entrails, chewed at your liver and stomach, severed tendon from organ, until finally, when you were alone in the dark, it sat gorged and sleek subsequent to your head, its eyes resting, its wet muzzle like a kiss, a promise whispered in the ear."
With no other description of the scene - the sterile hospital room, the nurses who lack compassion, the long nights, the brutal pain - the hopelessness of the character's situation is absolutely clear, encapsulated in this one metaphor. Death was a rodent. We have a taste of fear in our mouths that won't leave us when we put a marker in place and close the book. We know this wicked man's death was justice delivered, but we feel vulnerable to the rat ourselves. So there is some small element of conflict there as we sympathize with the dying man. Burke played on our fears, kept us intrigued to the very end, and then left us with just enough discomfort that the story will stay with us for a long time.
Burke's characters are complex, flawed, interesting. Life is messy and doesn't always treat them fairly, so my heart aches for these characters as they experience tragedies, abuses, mistakes, bad choices. But it's not just the characters that are intriguing. He knows how to make the scene come alive - literally.
I highly recommend any of James Lee Burke's novels. Neon Rain is top-notch.
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James Lee Burke is not your average crime fiction writer. "The Neon Rain," the very first Dave Robicheaux novel, is so full of atmosphere and real people that I felt like I was living in New Orleans while reading the book (I wasn't; I live in Northern California). Burke can describe settings like no one else I've read. The bayous are drenched in humidity; thunderstorms come alive and arc through your subconscious; even the cracks in the sidewalk cause you to mentally step over them. And his characters are so deep, so flawed, so human, that when you're introduced to them, you're almost compelled to greet them with a mental handshake.
Burke has a knack for not quite letting you guess exactly where he's taking you. In that regard, he's much like Michael Connelly and George Pelecanos. Simply put, Burke is a great writer, and Robicheaux is one of the more intriguing characters in fiction literature, joining my personal list of favorites which includes Harry Bosch, Jack Reacher, Matthew Scudder, John Corey, Nick Stefanos, Shane Scully, Mitch Rapp and Ridley Jones.
Buy it. Read it. Then do what I was forced to do. Buy the whole Robicheaux series. "The Neon Rain" will leave you no choice.
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