From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes his
definitive, must-read first title in his famous Dectective David
Robicheaux series.New Orleans Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too
many battles: in Vietnam, with police brass, with killers and hustlers,
and the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux haunts the
intense and heady French Quarter--the place he calls home, and the place
that nearly destroys him when he beomes involved in the case of a young
prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the seedy world
of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down the criminal
underworld and come to terms with his own bruised heart and demons to
survive.