Will the real Dave please stand up!

[Bill]

This book amazed me. I really had a lot of trouble getting into the story, but once I was there, I could not put it down. It was like (I am guessing) taking narcotics for weeks until you realize that you are hooked and cannot stop. In this case you cannot stop reading. But hurrying thru one of Mr. Burke's books is like running ON the tracks ahead of a speeding locomotive. There is just too much, there are just too many beautiful images to digest, to rush. You want to taste, savor, suck out the marrow of the text and tiptoe gently through one event after another. This book is a fine painting that will yield more wonders each time you read it. It is NOT a read-and-put-away novel.

[Dave]

Bill, nicely said! The quotable passages are many and varied. One I especially like comes late in the novel. Weldon, on the run thinks, "The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way to Santa Monica." Pg. 415
Burke has this wonderful capacity to speak to the every man (and woman)about universal themes without talking down. His ability to do so is uplifting in and of itself. With the passing of Elmore Leonard, James Lee Burke stands alone as the Dean of Mystery Writers and shoulder to shoulder with our best writers regardless of genre.

[Dave]

You talk'n 'bout me?

[Dave]

Hi Bill. Do you mean you would like to see a picture?

[Dave]

No I get it...you mean Dave Robicheaux. Dave and Weldon are two sides of the same Burke Coin. Same but different.