Robicheaux (Dave Robicheaux #21)

by James Lee Burke

Thomas Jefferson said, ‘I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.’ ”

what a terrific use of wofds

to those who had lost their jobs because of bankers and Wall Street stockbrokers and the NAFTA politicians who had made a sieve of our borders

If you wanted to win a revolution, this was the bunch to get on your side. The same could be said if you wanted to throw the Constitution into the trash can.

belief that the world was mad, that most politicians were liars who served the interests of corporations, that populists were con artists, and that the poor were kept poor and uneducated as long as possible.

“The past has no reality. The world belongs to the living.”