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Pegasus Descending

A Dave Robicheaux Novel
Pages
376
Published
2006
Language
English

Synopsis

Dave Robicheau, a former New Orleans cop and Vietnam veteran, now works as a sheriff's deputy in rural Louisiana. When a young woman named Trish Klein arrives and begins a dangerous game with a local mobster, Robicheau is pulled into a case from his own past — the death of Trish's father, a fellow veteran, decades earlier. Alongside his partner Clete Purcel, Robicheau must untangle a decades-old conspiracy of violence and betrayal before it consumes everyone involved.

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About the author

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James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936, in Houston, Texas) is an American novelist best known for the Dave Robicheaux crime series, which began with The Neon Rain. He also writes the Billy Bob Holland and Hackberry Holland series. His novels have won three Edgar Awards for Best Novel — Black Cherry Blues (1990), Cimarron Rose (1998), and Flags on the Bayou (2024) — and in 2009 the Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master.

Characters

Dave RobicheauProtagonist
Whitey BruxalAntagonist
Clete PurcelSupporting
Trish KleinSupporting
All characters in Pegasus Descending