Dixie City Jam
JAMES LEE BURKE'S BLOCKBUSTER BESTSELLER AT A NEW LOW PRICE! DIXIE CITY JAMRead by Will Patton They're out there, under the salt -- the bodies of German seamen who used to lie in wait at the mouth of the Mississippi for unescorted American tankers sailing from the oil refineries of Baton Rouge...
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JAMES LEE BURKE'S BLOCKBUSTER BESTSELLER AT A NEW LOW PRICE! DIXIE CITY JAMRead by Will Patton They're out there, under the salt -- the bodies of German seamen who used to lie in wait at the mouth of the Mississippi for unescorted American tankers sailing from the oil refineries of Baton Rouge out into the Gulf of Mexico. As a child, Dave Robicheaux had been haunted by the sailors' images. Years later, Robicheaux, a detective with the New Iberia sheriff's office, finds himself and his family at serious risk, stalked for his knowledge of a watery burial ground by a mysterious man named Will Buchalter -- a man who believes that the Holocaust was one big hoax.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780786889006 (0786889004)
Publish date: July 1995
Publisher: Hyperion
Pages no: 494
Edition language: English
Series: Dave Robicheaux 1 (#7)
I listen to this series because I enjoy the atmosphere and writing though sometimes the violence and sheer evil of the some of the villains is almost too much. The plot in this entry had quite a bit going on between the Nazi sub, the vigilante killings, and the organized crime angle but everything w...
If this book was a truck, it would be a heavy duty Ford able to pull a submarine out of the water. As number seven in the Dave Robicheaux series, this book, I believe, was the best one yet and that’s saying a lot since I’ve given them all four or five stars. (I don’t give out five stars easily.)Ha...
James Lee Burke is an especially fluid and descriptive writer. Dixie City Jam is loaded with wonderful phrasing and exquisite descriptions. Being a mystery thriller, it is also full of action and lively characters that intrigues the reader. Burke doesn't seem to know how to write a one-dimensional c...