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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt; Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I rarely read crime fiction because it depresses the hell out of me. However, I was at my cousin's house at the end of last week whilst attending the wake and funeral for my aunt. The first night I found a truly horrible paperback called Wishes by Jude Devereaux - a really really bad example of poor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38589590">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Neon Rain, by James Lee Burke, narrated by Will Patton, A.  produced by Recorded Books, downloaded from audible.com.<br/><br/>This is the first in the Dave Robicheau series.  I am doing a happy dance that Recorded Books is republishing these books now narrated by Will Patton.  He is the only p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64908470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke is one of my favorites, but I came late to it and have never read the early novels. This is the first book of the series, and it starts to fill in the back story for me in this perennial favorite storyline. Robicheaux is a police lieutenant in New Orlean...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70952232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Neon Rain marks the first appearance of Dave Robicheaux, Burke's idealistic Cajun cop. I've read most of the books in the series but had somehow missed this one.<br/><br/>Burke's writing is beautiful. His descriptions of New Orleans and Louisiana are so vivid I could almost smell the flowers and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63103756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a later book by James Lee Burke featuring the central character here, and I wanted to go back and check some of the back-story.<br/><br/>Burke’s ‘Dave Robicheaux’ novels, of which this is the first, are largely set in southern Louisiana.  Robicheaux is a New Orleans homicide detective...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40822379">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since I have been following James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux series for several years now I decided that it was time for me to go back to the beginnings.  The Neon Rain is one of the earlier Robicheaux novels, and it gave me some insight into Dave's earlier life and why he made some of the choices ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78336932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well written, fairly interesting characters and nice atmosphere.  The story didn't totally make sense to me and it was full of gratuitous violence.  As in; every couple pages has some breathless description of some horrific event in pornographic detail, much of it having nothing to do with the story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71027349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book in the Dave Robicheaux series.  I have no idea why it took me so long to get around to reading it.<br/><br/>I've been a fan of Burke's writing for years and have read all but two of the Dave Robicheaux series.  This initial offering, while having some rough edges, sets the t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38423887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's the first title in the Dave Robicheaux series and I really loved the viscous, evocative imagery, the realistically portrayed characters and, the uncertainty as to how the whole of the situation and the characters' fates will be dispositioned until the very end. The narrator sounds a wee bit too...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76572258">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first novel in James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux mystery series. These series feature Dave Robicheaux who at the beginning of this first book is on the New Orleans police force, but not for long. The early books in the series over do the color references -- most sentences mention a color...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6381016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty readable, but not too interesting. Much of the plot has to do with the situation in Nicaragua in the 70s and 80s. The book was published in 1987, so maybe if I had read it then, I would have found it more interesting. I still might read another Dave Robicheaux mystery, though. I enjoyed readi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63888698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dave Robicheaux, now here is a character after my heart.  loves booze.  check.  loves to eat.  check.  loves the bayou.  check.  we are both ex cops/private dicks. check.  this book is like if miami vice was a book. but it took place in weeziana.  so new orleans vice.  the book.  awesomely 80's.  sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42247625">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of the Dave Robincheaux novels I've read so far, this one may be the one with the most gratuitous violence especially by Robincheaux himself. Also, Clete, one of my favorite Burke complicated-odd ball characters, had a fairly small role in this book.  But the mystery is interesting, and the writing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52372324">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I discovered this book, I was very excited.  Dave Robicheaux was a CAJUN as am I and with Burke's mesmerizing use of language I was hooked.  This is the first in the series, followed by  Heaven's Prisoners which was made into a move with Alec Baldwin, then Black Cherry Blues,  A Morning for Fla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4203706">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Re-reading this book now. This man tells a fine story. He is among my favorite mystery authors although his books get a little formulaic after you have read several of them. Still a good tale with well developed characters though.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found I didn't care much for the main character and that tended to dampen my enjoyment of the book.  I like the settings for the story (Cajun Louisiana), so I'm going to try another one... Maybe Dave Robicheaux will eventually win me over.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Solid gold. :)<br/><br/>I admit to a couple of doubts about a few baby boomer tics, but, wow, the meditations on time and memory, morality, toughness, alcohol and personal destruction, the gambler's mind? Hot damn! Great stuff!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[read this, and all jlb books upon their publication dates . . . don't want to miss one, although i like the louisianna books better than the montana books and dave better than our texas characters]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I stumbled upon Rain Gods my cyber pal Ken encouraged me to check out the Dave Robichaux series.  I'm glad I did. This was a fantastic, fast paced, dark, and gripping detective story.  Now I have a huge back list to catch up on. yay!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautifully written book.  James Lee Burke is most at home when he writes from the point of view of his protagonist Robicheaux when he's in New Orleans and most tortured.]]></body>
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