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A STAINED WHITE RADIANCE : A DAVE ROBICHEAUX NOVEL

The death of a copy and a bizarre assassination attempt are pulling the Cajun police detective, Robicheaux, into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest -- and toward shocking secrets that lie in a past as dark and murky as the bayou night.

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  • "The death of a copy and a bizarre assassination attempt are pulling the Cajun police detective, Robicheaux, into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest -- and toward shocking secrets that lie in a past as dark and murky as the bayou night."@en
  • "Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux knows the Sonnier family of New Iberia--their connections to the CIA, the mob and to a former Klansman now running for state office. And he knows their dark and murky past. Now an assassination attempt has drawn Robicheaux into the Sonniers' web of madness, murder, and incest."@en
  • "Another dark rhapsody on Burke's favorite themes--power and vengeance, organized crime, maverick Louisiana lawmen, and nightmares from Vietnam--all pulled together more tightly than ever by the Sonnier family, threatened by somebody (oilman brother Weldon's mob contacts? televangelist brother Lyle's stray sheep? sister Drew's old political enemies? brother-in-law Bobby Earl's followers in the Aryan Nation? hateful paterfamilias Verise, long presumed dead in a tanker explosion?) who first shoots out Weldon's window and then executes a cop in the family basement. There'll be more violence--much more--and enough guilt for everybody, as New Iberia detective Dave Robicheaux, instead of maundering over the issues, as in Black Cherry Blues (1989) and A Morning for Flamingos (1990), turns in his finest performance to date. By no means a well-made detective story--the Sonniers' coincidental bad luck rivals Job's--but a wholly original tale of crime and revenge, inside and outside the law."
  • ""A bullet shot through the window of Weldon Sonnier's house propels Dave Robicheaux back into the lives of a family he's not sure he wants to be reacquainted with. Weldon Sonnier's CIA-influenced past has led to dangerous connections and commitments, including debts to local mob boss Joey 'Meatballs' Gouza. As Weldon puts himself in the line of fire Lyle Sonnier, television evangelist and faith healer, reveals to Dave a violent family history that intersects menacingly with Dave's own. But overshadowing the manoeuvres of Gouza's gang is the spectre of racial politics and it is former Klansman Bobby Earl who will prove to be Dave Robicheaux's most elusive enemy"--Page 2 of cover."
  • ""It's impossible to think of the Louisiana bayou without conjuring up James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux books" ( Chicago Tribune ), including this early masterwork that pits the Cajun police detective against one of the New South's most twisted and powerful forces. Oil speculator Weldon Sonnier is the patriarch of a troubled family intimately bound to the CIA, the Mob, and the Klan. Now, the murder of a cop and a bizarre assassination attempt pull Robicheaux into the Sonniers' hellish world of madness, murder, and incest. But Robicheaux has devils of his own? and they may just destroy the tormented investigator and the two people he holds most dear."@en
  • "A bullet through a windowpane brings Robicheaux back in contact with the Sonnier family, childhood friends whose morality is scarred by a history of abuse. Welton, once a pilot for the CIA-backed Air America; Lyle, a television evangelist; and Drew, a girl-woman with a bitter past, form an extraordinarily close-knit family whose guarded secrets make it impossible for Robicheaux to protect them."@en
  • "The murder of a local cop entangles New Orleans policeman Dave Robicheaux with the Sonnier family, childhood friends from an abusive home."
  • "Presents a Dave Robicheaux mystery."@en
  • "Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux finds himself entangled with childhood friends with a violent famly history."@en
  • "Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux finds himself entangled with childhood friends with a violent famly history."
  • "An assassination attempt and a police officer's death draw detective Dave Robicheaux into the web of the Sonnier family, a vicious clan with ties to the CIA, the underworld, and to an ex-Klansman running for office."@en

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  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en

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  • "Une tache sur l'éternité"
  • "A STAINED WHITE RADIANCE : A DAVE ROBICHEAUX NOVEL"@en
  • "A stained white radiance"@en
  • "A stained white radiance"
  • "Pimeän hehku"@fi
  • "A Stained White Radiance"
  • "Une Tache sur l'éternité"
  • "A Stained White Radiance : #5 Dave Robicheaux Novel"@en
  • "A Stained White Radiance : A Dave Robicheaux Novel"
  • "Piccola notte cajun"
  • "Piccola notte cajun"@it
  • "En støvet hvid aura"@da
  • "A stained white radiance : a Dave Robicheaux novel"@en
  • "A stained white radiance : a Dave Robicheaux mystery"@en

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