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Original Title:	The Neon Rain
ISBN:	0753820331 (ISBN13: 9780753820339)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Dave Robicheaux #1
Characters:	Dave Robicheaux
Setting:	New Orleans, Louisiana(United States) Louisiana(United States)

The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux #1) Paperback | Pages: 285 pages

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Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with 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.

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Title	:	The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux #1)
Author	:	James Lee Burke
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 285 pages
Published	:	2005 by Phoenix (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Detective. Noir

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Dave Robicheaux is your quintessential hard-boiled detective, struggling with anger issues, inner demons and alcohol. When he's not out bashing bad guys, he is waxing poetically about the meaning of life and who makes the best beignets (PS: The answer is Cafe du Monde). The only thing that makes him different from other great tough guy detectives is that he speaks with a Cajun accent. Who doesn't love that?



What a wonderfully evocative title, sadly I think the title was my favourite part of the book.This felt like the middle ground between something I love and something that leaves me cold, a mixture of Dashiell Hammett or one of those great classic writers of the hardboiled, black as night, noir school of crime and James Patterson or one of the many, many, many generic crime thriller writers out there lining up to shift some units no matter how average to mediocre their novels are.I liked Dave

Everyone says too many books, too little time. I'm changing it to too many great writers, too little time. The first book I read by James Lee Burke was Wayfaring Stranger. I read it before it was published in July of 2014 because I received an advance reading copy from the publisher. It was an unbelievably good book and I wanted to read more from this author. So here it is August of 2017 and I have just finished my second book by James Lee Burke. How could I let so many years go by without

The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke is a 2010 Pocket Books publication. (Originally published in 1987)I suppose it should be downright criminal that I have yet to read one book in this long running, highly respected series, until now. But there is no time like the present, better late than never and that jazz-Lieutenant Dave Robicheaux discovers the body of a young black woman floating in the water while he is out fishing. His investigation into her death exposes layers upon layers of criminal

This is a revised review as of 4/14/2013 with some images to add flavor.It's like a lot of detective novels set in the 1980s except the real standouts are the fact that it's New Orleans and the author gets that particular sub culture. Burke has an elegant prose and his main character, David Robicheaux, is engaging. Robicheaux is a 50-something hard boiled detective who survived the Vietnam War yet is still haunted by it and thus turns to drinking (though it becomes evident later he was

This is a hard one to call. It was the first James lee Burke offering I had read, and I certainly have mixed feelings about it. There's no doubt that Burke can write very well; he develops interesting characters and creates some brilliant dialogue for them. It could have been a really good book but had some flaws that spoiled it for me, just a little. I say flaws for want of a better word; perhaps shortcomings would be a better term. I am perfectly aware that other people might not be bothered