Dixie City Jam

From Publishers Weekly After his dreamy sojourn into Civil War history in In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead , former New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux comes up against the residue of Nazism in his action-packed, somewhat rambling seventh adventure. When Batist, who helps Dave run his bait shop, is arrested for the latest in a series of murders of New Orleans drug dealers, Dave must raise money for his bail. For a $10,000 finder's fee, he agrees to search for a Nazi submarine sunk in 1942 off the coast of New Iberia, where he is now deputy sheriff. While the sub search draws the attention of a neo-Nazi sadist who threatens Dave's wife, Bootsie, Dave is distracted by the antics of his former partner, Clete Purcel, who has decided to take on mob interests and, in one instance, destroys a crime boss's mansion with an earth mover. Before a dramatic resolution at sea draws the threads of the plots loosely together, Dave traces an intricate course marked by ritual killings, bouts of torture, Bootsie's anxiety (from which she seeks relief in drink) and racial and gender politics within the New Orleans police force, drawing Dave into the lives of a feisty black woman cop and her teenage son. A standout in the diverting supporting cast is doom-predicting Brother Oswald, who employs a maddeningly roundabout manner of discourse. In this physically demanding, fast moving plot, Dave is less ruminative than when last seen, though he holds on to his trademark melancholy-tinged sensitivity. $200,000 ad/promo; 20-city author tour. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Louisiana sleuth Dave Robicheaux (who made it big in the Edgar Award-winning Black Cherry Blues , LJ 8/89) confronts his nastiest villain yet: neo-Nazi Will Buchalter. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. The 7th Dave Robicheaux Novel From Sunday Times Bestselling Author James Lee Burke When A Nazi Submarine Is Discovered Lying In Sixty Feet Of Water Off The Louisiana Coast Some Troubled Ghosts Are Ready To Be Released. A Local Businessman Is Offering Detective Dave Robicheaux Big Money To Bring The Wreck To The Surface, But He Is Not The Only One After The Submarine And Its Mysterious Cargo. Neo-nazis Are On The March In New Orleans, A New Spirit Of Hatred Is Abroad, And Its Terrifying Embodiment, An Icy Psychopath Called Will Buchalter, Is Stalking Robicheaux's Wife. Robicheaux Is About To Find Out How Deep The New Current Of Evil Runs - And Just How Far The Crazed Buchalter Will Go To Get His Hands On The Nazis' Legacy. Praise For One Of The Great American Crime Writers, James Lee Burke: 'james Lee Burke Is The Heavyweight Champ, A Great American Novelist Whose Work, Taken Individually Or As A Whole, Is Unsurpassed.' Michael Connelly 'a Gorgeous Prose Stylist.' Stephen King 'richly Deserves To Be Described Now As One Of The Finest Crime Writers America Has Ever Produced.' Daily Mail Fans Of Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly And Don Winslow Will Love James Lee Burke: Dave Robicheaux Series 1. The Neon Rain 2. Heaven's Prisoners 3. Black Cherry Blues 4. A Morning For Flamingos 5. A Stained White Radiance 6. In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead 7. Dixie City Jam 8. Burning Angel 9. Cadillac Jukebox 10. Sunset Limited 11. Purple Cane Road 12. Jolie Blon's Bounce 13. Last Car To Elysian Fields 14. Crusader's Cross 15. Pegasus Descending 16. The Tin Roof Blowdown 17. Swan Peak 18. The Glass Rainbow 19. Creole Belle 20. Light Of The World 21. Robicheaux Hackberry Holland Series 1. Lay Down My Sword And Shield 2. Rain Gods 3. Feast Day Of Fools 4. House Of The Rising Sun Billy Bob Holland Series 1. Cimarron Rose 2. Heartwood 3. Bitterroot 4. In The Moon Of Red Ponies * Each James Lee Burke Novel Can Be Read As A Standalone Or In Series Order *