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Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries) | 
| Author: James Lee Burke
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  103 reviews
Sales Rank: 504899
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.3
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
ASIN: B000TVIVVK
Publication Date: July 12, 2005
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"Critically acclaimed and bestselling crime writer James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his ever-popular hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and uncertainty. 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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 Good writing but... June 15, 2008
... utterly confusing and mediocre plot.
Burke has lost it as have many of the "celebrity" authors. Commercialism stifles creativity. I have moved on to newer, lesser well known authors such as Pilate by Steven Rage, Caliphate by Tom Kratzman, War against Islam, The Ezekiel Code,....
Traditionalists and readers who don't care about plot will like Burke's book, but beware of same old, same old...
You've been warned.
 Excellent February 13, 2008
Excellent work. All of Burke's Robicheaux novels are fantastic. Will end up reading all of them. I have 10 so far.
 Typical forumla January 30, 2008
As ususal, Burke writes an engaging tale; albeit an overused formula about good ole Dave, e.g. Robicheaux loses his control, beats the heck out of someone from a prominent politican to a low life that deserves it and always, with impunity; or he gets beat up and recovers from trauma that to most humans would be so debilitating that would cause everlasting drooling and eating meals through a straw. But still I read everything that Burke writes. He is the best at turning a phrase or succinctly describing an event or place like no one else. And each book has new phrases and descriptions; to wit: his prose on a Wal-Mart store in LA (or anywhere else) is right on. Burke is indeed brilliant and I will keep reading his writings...
Great gift. January 7, 2008
I got this for a gift and it was delivered in plenty of time. Love the author but didn't know if the person I gave it to would.
She did and now buys as many of James Lee Burke as she can.
The Best by JLB December 19, 2007
I have read most of James Lee Burke's books and this is by far and away the best plotted and written. Gone are most of those made up "folksy" sayings that no one from New Orleans to Lake Charles has ever heard uttered, except by the characters in these books. That is good.
Also, a realistic look into the twisted mind of a recovering alcoholic.
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