Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
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For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past—images from Vietnam, the violent streets of New Orleans, and his own troubled youth. In Crusader's Cross, a deathbed confession from an old schoolmate resurrects a story of injustice, the murder of a young woman, and a time in Robicheaux's life he has tried to forget.
Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin. It was back in the innocent days of the 1950s when Robicheaux and his brother, Jimmie, met her on a Galveston beach. She was pretty and Jimmie fell for her hard—not knowing she was a prostitute on infamous Post Office Street, with ties to the mob. Then Ida was abducted and never seen again.
Now, decades later, Robicheaux is asking questions about Ida Durbin, and a couple of redneck deputy sheriffs make it clear that asking questions is a dangerous game. With a series of horrifying murders and the sudden appearance of Valentine Chalons and his sister, Honoria, a disturbed and deeply alluring woman, Robicheaux is soon involved not only with the Chalons family but with the murderous energies of the New Orleans underworld. Also, he meets and finds himself drawn into a scandalous relationship with a remarkable Catholic nun.
Brilliant, brooding, and filled with the author's signature lyricism, Jim Burke's latest novel is a darkly suspenseful work of literature.
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James Lee Burke. (2005). Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)James Lee Burke. 2005. Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel. Simon & Schuster.
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MLA Citation (style guide)James Lee Burke. Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel. Simon & Schuster, 2005.
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For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past—images from Vietnam, the violent streets of New Orleans, and his own troubled youth. In Crusader's Cross, a deathbed confession from an old schoolmate resurrects a story of injustice, the murder of a young woman, and a time in Robicheaux's life he has tried to forget.
Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin. It was back in the innocent days of the 1950s when Robicheaux and his brother, Jimmie, met her on a Galveston beach. She was pretty and Jimmie fell for her hard—not knowing she was a prostitute on infamous Post Office Street, with ties to the mob. Then Ida was abducted and never seen again.
Now, decades later, Robicheaux is asking questions about Ida Durbin, and a couple of redneck deputy sheriffs make it clear that asking questions is a dangerous game. With a series of horrifying murders and the sudden appearance of Valentine Chalons and his sister, Honoria, a disturbed and deeply alluring woman, Robicheaux is soon involved not only with the Chalons family but with the murderous energies of the New Orleans underworld. Also, he meets and finds himself drawn into a scandalous relationship with a remarkable Catholic nun.
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Starred review from June 6, 2005
Superb writing and a throbbing pace lift two-time Edgar-winner Burke's powerful, many-layered 14th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2003's Last Car to Elysian Fields
), which involves venal and arrogant members of a wealthy family that can trace its lineage to fifth-century France as well as the machinations of the New Orleans mafia. A conversation between Robicheaux and a dying childhood friend about Ida Durbin, a young prostitute that Robicheaux's half-brother, Jimmie, loved and lost in the late 1950s, sets the ex-homicide detective on a path that eventually leads to several gruesome killings and his near downfall. Unemployed, his wife dead, his daughter in college, Robicheaux rejoins the New Iberia, La., sheriff's department at the urging of Sheriff Helen Soileau, who needs an extra hand as the murders mount. While the tendrils of the sometimes rambling plot unfold, Robicheaux and his impulsive former police partner, PI Clete Purcell, seek retribution for injustices caused by a wide range of corrupt villains. Burke masterfully combines landscape and memory in a violent, complex story peopled by sharply defined characters who inhabit a lush, sensual, almost mythological world. Agent, Philip G. Spitzer.
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Dave Robicheaux ("Last Car to Elysian Fields") has always been haunted by the past, so it's no surprise that the past collides with the present in this 14th novel featuring one of fiction's greatest characters. When Dave and his brother, Jimmie, were teenagers, Jimmie fell hard for a young prostitute who was trying to get out of the business and who vanished soon after. Almost half a century later, a dying man whispers the woman's name to Dave, and soon Jimmie is out searching for her, with Dave unwillingly assisting in the pursuit. At the same time, Dave is tracking down a serial killer, trying to limit his involvement with a wealthy family who seems to have it out for him, and becoming romantically involved with a local nun. Never one to avoid trouble or confrontation, he manages to juggle all these complications in his own ham-handed, well-intentioned way. The story is a little crowded, but Burke's well-drawn characters and evocative writing more than compensate. Another winner from a master writer, this is recommended for all public libraries. [See Prepub Mystery, "LJ" 3/1/05.] -Craig Shufelt, Lane P.L., Oxford, OHCopyright 2005 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2005, American Library Association.)
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