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Violence
A lot
Post-Katrina violence; murder in a disaster zone; the criminal exploitation of displaced people
Language
A lot
Very strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild sexual content
Substance Use
A lot
Heavy drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific moral weight of disaster as a revelation of character — who protects and who exploits; Dave's fury at institutional failure as something personal
What this book is about
Hurricane Katrina has destroyed New Orleans. Dave Robicheaux investigates crimes committed in the immediate aftermath — looting, murder, the specific cruelty of people who exploit disaster — against the backdrop of a city that has become something barely recognizable. James Lee Burke's fourteenth Robicheaux novel is his most politically urgent: a portrait of what institutional failure looks like when it has human consequences, written with the fury of a writer who loves Louisiana and watched it be abandoned.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
very strong language
Hurricane Katrina as backdrop
fourteenth of the Robicheaux series
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