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The Tin Roof Blowdown ( 2007) is a crime novel by American author James Lee Burke. [1] Synopsis. Dave Robicheaux, once an officer for the New Orleans Police Department and before that a U.S. Army infantry lieutenant who fought in the Vietnam War, [2] now works as sheriff's deputy in New Iberia, Louisiana.
- James Lee Burke
- 2007
1 de ene. de 2007 · In The Tin Roof Blowdown, three young men from the Ninth Ward are moving from house to house searching for anything of value in the days following Katrina. In one home they assault a young white woman; in a wealthier part of town, they destroy a home that had been spared the worst of the disaster, finishing what Katrina started.
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17 de jun. de 2008 · As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has been destroyed, New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society.
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- James Lee Burke
As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has been destroyed, New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society.
17 de jul. de 2007 · In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans.
17 de jul. de 2007 · In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome...
The plot itself, the investigation of the murder of two black men in the ninth ward, hinges on familiar Burke tropes--the powerless caught in a web of circumstance; surprising acts of nobility from the least likely people; unfathomable evil prompting eruptions of Robicheaux's thinly suppressed rage--but the novel's power comes from the way it ex...
