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Sonny Boy Marsallus overlader en dagbog til sin bekendt, kriminalkommisær Dave Robicheaux
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[Højbjerg] Hovedland 1996
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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Short Stories. HTML:A BRUTAL LEGACY OF CRUELTY AND HATE IS AWAKENED IN THE BAYOU When Sonny Boy Marsallus returns to New Iberia after fleeing for Central America to avoid the wrath of the powerful Giacana family, his old troubles soon follow. Meanwhile Dave Robicheaux becomes entangled in the affairs of the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers whose matriarch helped raise Dave as a child. They are in danger of losing the land they've lived on for more than a century. As Dave tries to discover who wants the land so badly, he finds himself in increasing peril from a lethal, rag tag alliance of local mobsters and a hired assassin with a shady past. And when a seemingly innocent woman is brutally murdered, all roads intersect, and Sonny Boy is in the middle. With the usual James Lee Burke combination of brilliant action and unforgettable characters, Burning Angel is the author at his best �?? showing that old hatreds and new ones are not that far apa… (more)
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LibraryThing member wildbill
My first Dave Robicheaux mystery. James Lee Burke's minimalist writing style effectively portrays reality where not all questions are answered. The unnamed character in the book is the nature and scenery which provides a poetic background for the story.
The main character in this story is Sonny Boy
The ending provides resolution of some of the plot lines but leaves some to be continued. I particularly enjoyed the portrayal of Robicheaux's relationship with his daughter which like everything else in the book has the imperfections of reality.
I look forward to the other two of these mysteries I now own and exploring further into the long running series.
The main character in this story is Sonny Boy
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Marsallus. A one time street hustler who became transformed into a shadowy character who exists on the edge of the supernatural. The story mixes tales of mafiosi, government spooks, and a love story that crosses racial boundaries.The ending provides resolution of some of the plot lines but leaves some to be continued. I particularly enjoyed the portrayal of Robicheaux's relationship with his daughter which like everything else in the book has the imperfections of reality.
I look forward to the other two of these mysteries I now own and exploring further into the long running series.
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LibraryThing member JBreedlove
One of the best Dave Robicheaux novels I've read. Quick paced and full of the descriptive power that gives these novels such a sense of place. Though I figured the assassin with a third of the book to go the way the final scene was played out was the mystery that kept me reading. Along with all the
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odd violent southern characters that populate his novels as well. Show Less
LibraryThing member macha
Beautifully written. And the subject matter is fearsome: Dave Robicheaux's way of treating with his world here clashes, even in dream, with a whole lot of forces, mores, and assumptions that pervade the world he lives in. 'Even inside the dream I know I'm experiencing what a psychologist once told
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me is a world destruction fantasy. But my knowledge that it is only a dream does no good; I cannot extricate myself from it.' He lives in a beautiful and deadly world, in which the great chain of being operates on the principle of 'eat or be eaten'. But in the waking world at least Dave has to find a way to go on living in it. So he begins to make his choices, essays small interventions. He quickly finds himself in more than one another country, where nothing is as it seems and he must risk everything he loves to right imbalances, until his whole world makes sense to him again. And meanwhile, everything he is and loves remains at risk. At every turn he must decide what to let go of, what he needs to keep. 'It was all that quick, as though a loud train had gone past me, slamming across switches, baking the track with its own heat, creating a tunnel of sound and energy so intense that the rails seem to reshape like bronze licorice under the wheels; then silence that's like hands clapped across the eardrums, a field of weeds that smell of dust and creosote, a lighted club car disappearing across the prairie.' A little masterpiece, this one, and maybe the only pure magic realism novel in the whole series too.. Show Less
LibraryThing member andyray
The theme can be stated without spoiling the book. i.e.,, WE MUST BE CAREFUL HOW E TREAT PEOPLE, FOR THERE MAY BE ANGELS AMONG US. Burke is wonderful at characterization and hooking us into his world with awesome paintings (that are not always beautiful). Here paints a question mark around Sonny
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Boy. Look for this in other novels as well. It is part of his signature. Show Less
LibraryThing member Espey1
Dave Robicheaux, ex-New Orleans homicide detective and now a detective for the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office, responds to a call from Sonny Boy Marsallus and ends up putting his life on the line. Sonny Boy is an ex-tough from Iberville, Dave's old stomping grounds, a man who worked the streets
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with steely grim resolve but somehow kept a generous heart as well. When his business saving fallen angels from the Giacano Family grew too successful, Sonny Boy traded in the streets of Iberville for the jungles of South America and ended up working for years as a mercenary and for the DEA. During a brief meeting, Sonny Boy asks Dave to keep a journal safe for him. He doesn't explain what's in the journal, but does take time to say dangerous people are looking for it. Three days later, the woman Sonny Boy gave a copy of the book to ends up murdered, and Sonny Boy has disappeared. Before long, Dave unearths connections that link Sonny Boy to dangerous ex-CIA types and to the local Mafia figure, John Polycarp Giacano. At the same time, Bertie Fortenot, the black woman who helped raise Dave, asks him to look into a real estate matter for her. Moleen Bertrand, one of the old money families in Iberia Parish, has threatened legal action to get the black families off the land his family, according to Bertie, gave to the black families scores of years ago. Dave probes both cases, finding them inextricably linked and having to reach back into a case nearly twenty years old to tie everything together. Show Less
LibraryThing member Gatorhater
When Sonny Boy Marsallus resurfaces in New Orleans, Detective Dave Robicheaux of the Iberia Parish sheriff's office couldn't be more surprised-that is, not until Sonny passes him a mysterious notebook for safekeeping that seems to contain dark secrets about his activities in Latin America.
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Robicheaux must wrestle with secrets closer to home as well when his help is enlisted by the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers, whose claim to land they've lived on for almost one hundred years is jeopardized. and what of the longtime, clandestine affair between Moleen Bertrand, lord of the mannor, and Ruthie Jean Fontenot, now reputed to be a local madam. As Dave determines to find out who's honing in on the Bertrand spread, he puts himself in increasing peril at the hands of local mobsters and a hired assassin with a shady past that intersects with that of Sonny Boy. Show Less
LibraryThing member AliceAnna
Just didn't do it for me. I found his writing to be disjointed, unfocused and hard to follow. I didn't give a damn about any of the characters. I just couldn't get into it.
LibraryThing member TobinElliott
It might be just me, but this one seemed to have a lot of moving parts, and I'm not sure Burke was able to successfully keep them all in the air.
One element I do need to point out that I'm getting a touch tired with is...is Robicheaux a cop, or is he not a cop? He's been in and out of the job an
One element I do need to point out that I'm getting a touch tired with is...is Robicheaux a cop, or is he not a cop? He's been in and out of the job an
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awful lot over the course of the eight books I've read so far. Show Less
LibraryThing member jepeters333
The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone in New Iberia, Louisiana, can remember. So why are they now being forced from their homes? And what does the murder of Della Landry--the girlfriend of New Orleans fixer Sonny Boy Marsallus--have to do with
Marsallus's secrets seem tied to those of the Fontenots. But can Detective Dave Robicheaux make sense of it all before there is more bloodshed? In James Lee Burke's intense and powerful new bestseller, Robicheux digs deep into the bad blood and dirty secrets of Louisiana's past--while having to confront a rag-tag alliance of local mobsters and hired assassin.
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it?Marsallus's secrets seem tied to those of the Fontenots. But can Detective Dave Robicheaux make sense of it all before there is more bloodshed? In James Lee Burke's intense and powerful new bestseller, Robicheux digs deep into the bad blood and dirty secrets of Louisiana's past--while having to confront a rag-tag alliance of local mobsters and hired assassin.
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Subjects
Awards
Trophée 813 (1998)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1995-08-01
Physical description
340 p.; 21.8 cm
ISBN
8777392906 / 9788777392900
Local notes
Omslag: Arne Ottosen
Omslaget viser et utydeligt mandsansigt
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra engelsk "Burning Angel" af Ole Lindegård Henriksen
Omslaget viser et utydeligt mandsansigt
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra engelsk "Burning Angel" af Ole Lindegård Henriksen
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Pages
340
DDC/MDS
| 813.54 |