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Agatha Donkar Lund
It feels redundant to say that this was a brutal and angry book, because most of Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels are -- but this one was particularly brutal and angry, because it's Robicheaux's (and Burke's beloved) New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and all the anger, fear and frustration that it's clear Burke is harboring for the government's reaction in the wake of Katrina seeps through easily and obviously.

But it's really good anger, it's really good brutality -- I wouldn't recomme
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