About the Author

James Lee Burke is the New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award-winning author of twenty-four novels, including eighteen starring the Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux. Burke grew up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast, where he now lives with his wife Pearl. They also spend several months a year in Montana.

Reviews

"[Burke's] prose is an uncommon mixture of taut realism and poetic eloquence."--Los Angeles Times

"A surging, bitter novel as authentic as moonshine."--The New York Times Book Review

[Burke's] prose is an uncommon mixture of taut realism and poetic eloquence.--Los Angeles Times
A surging, bitter novel as authentic as moonshine.--The New York Times Book Review